Pact, An Adoption Alliance - Agency-Assisted Adoption: Legal Time Line

Agency-Assisted Adoption: Legal Time Line

The legal timeline of an adoption is enormously variable from state to state. Pact will help you understand the specific timeline in your state in conjunction with the state in which your adoptive child is born. Generally adoptions take anywhere from one to six months to finalize with birth parents having between 24 hours and 90 days after signing placement papers to revoke their decision under the law. Until the specifics are known, we cannot give you details. Once we begin to work with you, we will help you understand you particular situation.