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Help! My husband and I have been married for almost five months. This is my second marriage. (First hubby and I went through almost 8 years of infertility treatments with no success.) My husband and I really want a child. Our problem is that we live in Arkansas. There isn't a state law requiring you to be married for a minimum length of time before being eligible to adopt. However, all adoptions are somehow routed through DHS and they have a requirement that you must be married at least two years prior to adopting!
My husband and I are both in our early thirties. We know what we want. We want to adopt a baby now! My husband makes really good money, we own our own country home (actually two of them), and I don't work outside of the home.
Somewhere I saw that California just passed a law permitting out-of-state petitioners to finalize an adoption in California (as long as the child is from CA) and not have to go through thier home state. Are there any other states that have that law but don't have a length of marriage requirment??
Cynthia
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While states like California may be permitting finalization to take place there, the part of the process you still will have difficulty with is the homestudy. That still has to be done by a licenced social worker in your own state, and you are required to meet all state laws and rules before you can be approved to adopt. Without meeting all of those, you won't have an approved homestudy, and without an approved homestudy you cannot adopt from anywhere.
I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I didn't want you to waste time researching other states when you still would run into the rules of your own.
I wish you luck in your journey.
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