adopting Florida child from out of state

I am interested in a pre-teen, from Florida. Anyone have some advice on the OP questions?

It is really going to depend on the county the child is from. All counties have different agencies that contract with DCF. Some counties have more then one agency and all of them have there own way of doing things. The state does have timelines for the home study, ICPC ect...but it still depends on the agency how the rest of the process goes.