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Originally Posted By naomiI am presently engaged and we are planning to get married before the end of the year. We live in FL, and have been told we can't even start the adoption process till we are married at least a year. Would this also be true if we went through a private agencies? We have been searching all the state photo listing sites and we are interested in children in different states, would those states be able to help with the homestudy, if there marriage laws are different? We really were hoping to adopt with in the next year, so waiting at least 2 years, just to be able to be considered for adoption, seems very upsetting.Thanks for any information you may have
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Originally Posted By DannaWe also looked into state adoption when we lived in FL. The woman from the state said that we had to be married at least two years (we had only been married one). They don't seem in a real big hurry to get these children a family.Needless to say, we did not go with a state adoption.
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In most states the couple needs to be married at least two years before they can have a completed homestudy. I have heard of a state who only requires one year..... Sometimes the time before the wedding is counted.... In Oregon it is the time from the day of the weddding that is counted and no exceptions of the two-year rule are made.