An adoption in South Carolina is a two-step process. The first stage of the process is the termination of the parental rights of the biological parents and any legal father of the minor child.

The second stage of the adoption is creating the legal relationship of parent and child between the adoptive parents and the minor child. Continue reading »

The South Carolina Court of Appeals recently decided a case involving the request of a child’s former Foster Parents to adopt the child.  The Court of Appeals decided that the former Foster Parents did not have the right to ask to adopt the child after they voluntarily allowed the child to leave their home and be placed with another family for adoption. Continue reading »