How quick for babies to be adopted? - Adoption.com Forums

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Originally Posted by inshape I know that (Here) babies are either Ru'd or adopted by 6-9 months, so I've been told. However I don't if they mean that a plan will be established by 6-9 months or if that's when an actual adoption takes place. Our FB is 4 months. I'm 99% it's sure going to adoptions.... but not by us. She will not be hard to place as she is caucasion,with no health issues(other than exposed). Has anyone ever adopted a baby from a foster placement, if so, how long did the process generally take? I'm just trying to get a sense if we may actually keep her longer than the 6-9mo time frame.

The process averages around 2 years. Most parents, even with other children adopted or in foster care, get at least 6 months to get their life together.
After 6 months, if the parents are doing anything on their case, no matter how little it is, they get another 6 months. If the parents never had kids in foster care before, they also get another 6 months. If the parents have a history with CPS and they know the parents aren't going to complete a plan, they may request concurrent planning or adoption as the goal at the 6 month mark. This doesn't happen very often. In order to terminate a parent's rights, cps has to prove to the court that they did everything they possibly could to reunify and they couldn't make any progress with the parents. It's hard to prove that after 6 months unless the kids were abandoned (no visit, no work on case plan, no contact with cps/courts..etc)

At the one year mark, they start making permanency plans-either adoption or sending the baby home. If the case is going towards adoption, they will set a trial date -usually 3 to 5 months in the future. During that time, if the parent completes the case plan, tpr can be cancelled and the child can go home (this happened with one of my children). If parents still haven't had any progress, child welfare requests termination of parental rights and there is a hearing. The judge hears all the evidence and then sets a court date where he will make a decision (usually about a month or two in the future).
After TPR is complete, parents can appeal the decision (they usually have 30 days to file and sometimes wait until day 29 or day 30 to file an appeal) -I had that happen, too. If there is an appeal filed, you have to wait for an appeals court to review the entire file and make sure there were no errors and the judge was right to TPR. If there were any errors, tpr is overturned and it goes back to the original judge.

If it's NOT overturned, tpr is confirmed and you are now set for adoption. Your homestudy might be updated and you'll make a court date to adopt.

The average is about 2 years-sometimes more-before adoption.

As soon as concurrent planning becomes the goal, they'll start looking for an adoptive home. If they know it's going to adoption, they are probably already looking for a home. They'll move her once the case starts looking like an adoption. She'll probably be around 6 months or so when she's moved to an adoptive home. How long it takes after that will depend on all the different possible scenarios. For you, though, I would say, she'll probably be moved after the next court review hearing at the 6 month mark.

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