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Once adoption is finalized how long does it take to get adoption decree? When we adopted older three boys ten years ago I believe we had it within a week. It is two weeks now and we didnt get it yet.my husband even called the attorney yesterday but he hasnt received it yet. In the meantime we cant change his name anywhere. We cant add him to insurance without it so we have had to cancel dr and dentist appointments and speech and ot. We really wanted his name changed before he starts school next week but cant do it wothout the adoption decree.
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I'm in the same situation. Finalized last Wednesday. Still waiting on the decree. Still haven't been called in to sign the birth certificate.Can't change anything. Just sitting in limbo. I'm ready for this to be over already.I thought we'd be over finalization. Wrong. Sigh...I asked her teacher to refer to her by her new name when she started school and she has. You should be able to talk to the teacher about this.
when we signed the papers to move them from foster to adoptive placement, dfcs gave us a letter stating 'these are the names the children are to be known by!' they won't put it on their perm. records but they will call them those names.
ALso....here you get your adoption decree same day, at the courthouse.
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We got our decrees and certified copies of them the same day we adopted, we just had to go from the courtroom to the courthouse records window to pick it up.
We had to wait 2 1/2 months to get their birth certificates. Ironically we got their SS#'s before we got the birth certificates by 3 weeks, when they can't issue new SS#'s without new birth certificates...so I knew the state had processed them, they just took forever to actually print them out and send them!
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Can't you call the judge's clerk? He/she should be able to let you know