What is the difference between Termination and Finalization?
Termination of parental rights involves the process whereby the birth parents either voluntarily consent to the termination of their rights or action is taken to terminate rights (in the case of birth fathers). Each case is different and we will review this process during the initial phases of the adoption and matching process.
Your agency fee includes $2500 for terminating the parental rights of your child’s birth parents. Fam2Fam always controls that process. Regardless where your baby is born, its birth parents’ rights will be terminated under Texas law in Fort Bend County, Texas. Under Texas adoption law, a child does not have to be born in Texas for its parents to relinquish their parental rights to a Texas agency. Therefore, the birth parents will relinquish their rights to Fam2Fam and we will go to court to have the parents right terminated and Fam2Fam will be designated as managing conservator of the child until it is finalized. If your child is born in Texas, the birth parents may not relinquish their rights until the child is 48 hours old and when they sign the relinquishment, it is irrevocable. Most states will honor the irrevocability of a Texas relinquishment; they ask only that it is taken under their time frame, such as 72 hours after birth. These are individual issues that will be discussed wi
