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We understand that filing for a stepparent adoption is an extremely important time in your life. It can be stressful and the process can seem overwhelming. We guarantee that your New Jersey stepparent adoption documents will be accurate and that the court clerks will accept it for filing as meeting or exceeding their standards, or you get your money back - 100%. We can make this guarantee because we make it our mission to make sure our documents are complete and up-to-date with the newest court regulations. If we don't make it right, we'll refund your money - 100%. New Jersey Adoption - Information you should know. We know how important is it for you to do the research on filing your New Jersey adoption online. Our highly experienced staff will help you through the process. Please review the information below to educate yourself on filing a stepparent adoption in New Jersey, and then our staff will help you with any questions. In New Jersey, the person filing for the stepparent adoption is referred to as the "Petitioner" and the absent parent is referred to as the "Defendant". The petitioning stepparent will file the legal adoption documents that we prepare for you with the court. This will start the adoption process. An uncontested adoption means that the other parent is not going to file additional documents with the court objecting to the adoption. Most of the stepparent adoptions we do for customers have one of the following circumstances:
Please note that if the other parent has regular contact with the child and pays child support, you will not be able to complete a stepparent adoption in New Jersey unless the other parent is willing to sign a consent to the adoption.
Where will you file your stepparent adoption documents?
The adoption documents
are filed with the Superior Court in the county where you reside. When the stepparent adoption is
finalized by the Court, your adopted child will receive a new
birth certificate, showing the new parent listed on the
birth certificate, and also showing the child's new name. Prior to filing your Petition for
Adoption with the Superior Court in your county, you
must have been a bona fide resident of this state of New Jersey for six months
prior to the filing of the petition, which must be stated in the
petition and proved at the final hearing (Drivers License, etc.).
If both parties currently reside in the state, then there is no time
period required.
Grounds for the termination of parental rights. The grounds which typically justify the
termination of parental rights in a stepparent adoption involve
abandonment, failure to support the child, imprisonment, certain
abuse, and other grounds. The grounds for the termination of
parental rights is different for each state, but all states accept
the grounds of abandonment and lack of support, and some states
include other grounds. In the process of
your New Jersey stepparent adoption, you will want to make every
effort possible to get the consent of the other parent. Many
times it is impossible to get the other parents consent, either
because their whereabouts are unknown, or because they have such a
disinterest in the child that the withhold consent without good
cause. If you are unable to
get the consent of the other parent, you can still complete the
stepparent adoption without that parent's consent, as long as the
conditions oulined in the law have been met. In New Jersey, the consent of the other parent
is not required as long as one of the following grounds have been
met: The absent parent
has substantially failed to perform the regular and expected
parental functions of care and support of the child, although
able to do so. The absent parent
is unable to perform the regular and expected parental functions
of care and support of the child and that the parent's inability
to perform those functions is unlikely to change in the
immediate future.
It is not required to terminate parental rights of a parent who is
deceased.
Visitation by grandparents or the absent parent. Most states do not have
any provisions for the visitation rights of the parent losing
parental rights, or the grandparents associated with that parent.
The State of New Jersey will recognize agreements for visitation by the
parent
losing their parental rights, but this is typically up to the
discretion of the adopting parents.
New Jersey Superior Court:
Address of some NJ courts.
Our documents are for the entire State of
New Jersey. If your county court is not listed below, then
we will provided the court information when we send your documents
to you. You must file the adoption documents in the
Superior Court in the county that you are filing in. Some court
addresses for larger counties are as follows:
Essex County Superior Court - Family Division:
Court filing fees.
The court filing fees for an adoption in
New Jersey is
approximately $175.
Serving the absent parent. In
many stepparent adoption, the absent parent may be willing to sign a
consent form, which consents to the termination of their parental
rights, and consents to the adoption. If the absent parent is
willing to sign a consent this will make the process a little easier
because the court will know from the beginning that all parties
agree to the stepparent adoption. Many of our adoption
customers don't know the whereabouts of the other parent, or the
other parent has such a disinterest that he/she just won't sign any
documents. In this situation, you will file the adoption
documents and then serve the absent parent by one of the following
options: 1. Whereabouts of the other parent
is UNKNOWN: If you are unable to locate the
absent parent after a diligent search then you can serve the parent
by publication. This means that a notice is published in a
local legal publication. Typically once a week for 4 weeks.
The publication fee for the newspaper averages around $85 but varies
depending on where you live. Upon the filing of the Affidavit
the clerk shall direct that service of notice be made by publication
in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the
complaint is filed. We provide all the required documents for
service by publication. 2. The parent just won't sign, but
grounds exist for the adoption: If you know the whereabouts
of the other parent, but that parent won't sign due to disinterest,
you can have that parent served by the Sheriff's department or a
private process server. This can be done even if the other
parent is incarcerated in jail or a federal prison.
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