Adoption of a Child 

Adoption is the process by which a person takes the legal responsibility of a parent to a child. By a court’s approval, all responsibilities and rights of the biological parents are transferred to the adoptive parents. Under some conditions agreed upon by the parties involved, including the court, the biological parents may or may not be given legal access to the child. Some adoptive parents allow this until the child reaches a certain age.

Adoption differ from guardianship or holding custody over a child in that the acting parent in the guardianship is only given the right to oversee and care over the personal and property interest of a person. Custody, on the other hand, pertains to the right of a person, usually a biological parent, to have access with his/her child. Adoption is changing of parents to protect and continue the right of a child to have a good life.

Adoption can come in open and closed forms. Open adoption is rare in most countries but not in some states in the United States and countries like the United Kingdom. In this form, the adoptive parents continue to communicate with the biological parents about the child. The biological parents are usually given access to the child, and the child is usually kept knowledgeable of the situation.

In states like Utah, open adoption can be done through an informal arrangement, which can be terminated by the adoptive parents if the other breached the agreement, or through enforcing legal and binding agreement between parents. An adoption attorney utah is needed in either process, which boils down to conditions of periodic visits and sharing of monetary expenses.

Closed adoption, on the other hand, is a more common form in that the biological parents completely transfers to the adoptive parents all the rights and responsibilities on the child. With the help of an adoption attorney utah , non-identifying information, such as medical history and religious or ethnic background, can be transmitted.