What happens after TPR?

I've been told the average is around 6 to 8 months. I have also been told that bios almost always follow an appeal even if they weren't even close to finishing their case plan. One way to speed this up is to hire your own lawyer to finish up the case.

if the kiddo has been with you for 6 month (minimum required) and the goal has been changed to adoption by you, then you will transition into the adoption phase :banana: there's paperwork (of course), some of which requires a notary. there's a home visit (to ensure kiddo is settled in). once paperwork is complete, you get to file for a court date

Congratulations! We are in LA County. We had TPR in July, signed adoptive placement agreement with DCFS in August and finalized in October. Beliow is how ours went in LA County just a few months ago. In CA the first thing that happens after TPR is that the court has to notify the California Dept. of Social Services and the state has to acknowledge the TPR. That takes any where from 3-8 weeks depending on case loads, etc. the notification is usually done electronically from what I understand. Once acknowledged, the county has to draw up the adoptive placement papers and you have to sign them. You also get the child's complete medical file at this meeting. Then you have wait out the appeals period, which is often the same time as when the acknowledgement comes back from what I hear. We signed adoptive placement papers before the appeals period finished but had to sign an acknowledgement saying that the bio's could still appeal the TPR. In our case there was no appeal, which isn't that uncommon. Bio parents almost never win on appeal in CA (which is why getting to TPR can take forever). Sometimes they file just to say that they did. Assuming no appeal, the county has to draft final reports, paperwork and ICWA materials, etc. You also have to have at least one post-adoptive placement monitoring visit from the county. If the child hasn't already been with you for 6 months (ours had been), you have to wait for the child to have been in your care for at least 6 months and then one month after adoptive placement. After that, there's a flurry of paperwork between DCFS and your adoption attorney until he/she files your adoption petition. It sounds more stressful than it is. For us, everything went on autopilot after TPR. We just had to make sure that DCFS kept the paperwork flowing. We were also lucky in that we got a finalization date 2.5 weeks after we filed our adoption petition. From what I hear, it can take a month or two (or three) normally. We finalized almost exactly 1 month after the appeals period ended with no appeal. If ther's an appeal you can add at least 6 months to everything. Congrats again on you STBAS/D and I hope this helps.

We are with Riverside County also; we have been told very recently that it can take up to 120 days after TPR approval has been placed, and to finalize everything. The bios can appeal and get extended services for another six months, if the county is in agreement, and they so recommend for them. But the judge has the last word, but even that can change. TPR is great news for you; we have had TPR on the table, and off multiply times҅ Attended Foster Care Orientation 11/19/2010 Application submitted 11/21/2010 State foster home application accepted 3/1/2011 Medical Physicals 2/2011 County Interviews 3/2011 Classes start & finished 4/14/2011-6/23/2011 First Aide classes 6/30/2011 Passed Home Inspection (State) 11/02/2011 Live scans; county and state: started 4/26/2011 finally ended 9/2011 Due to Riverside County misplacing or not transmitting prints First half of our Home study completed 12/22/2011 Second half of our Home study completed 01/ 05/2012 FINALLY APPROVED and officially on waiting list 05/08/2012 due to under staffing at Riverside County. First placement: 6/10/2012 until 8/01/2012; we miss them so much. Second match 12/02/12: sibling set boy and a girl; a family aunt was targeted one day after being matched. Third match 02/15/13: little boy; again within an hour of being matched a family member came forward. Fourth match 03/02/13: Emom chose us to adopter her child after birth; two weeks before due date Emom vanishes. Riverside County does nothing, and places us back on waiting list. Fifth match 06/5/13: We go concurrent, a newborn baby girl; picked her up directly from the hospital.

I think there may be done confusion about Termination of Reunification Services vs. Termination of Parental Rights (TPR). TPR only comes after reunification services have been terminated and the goal changed to something other than reunification (adoption, kinship care, long-term foster, guardianship). So long as the goal is reunification, the bios can request an extension of services, etc. After services have been terminated, bios can still get visitation but services are done. Sometimes bios can show a substantial change in circumstances and have services revisited or reinstated but that doesn't happen too often from what I understand. Termination of Reunification services is sometimes put on and off the table multiple times before a decision to move forward with TPR is made.