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I am trying to legally adopt my baby brother. My parents essentially "gave" him to me two months ago.
Asked on Apr 22nd, 2012 on Adoptions - New York
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I am trying to legally adopt my baby brother, who is currently in my care. My parents have not and will not contest this - they essentially put him on a plane and gave him to me. They have yet to try to contact him in any meaningful way. They will sign whatever I ask them to sign. What is the legal distinction between "legal custody" and a formal adoption, and how is the process different? How do the rights differ? Will I be able to adopt him? He is three. I live in New York, but he was born in Ohio, where our parents are. He has been with me a little under two months.
Further, if I am able to adopt him, my same sex partner would also want to adopt him.
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Adoption will convey upon you and the child all of the privileges, rights, obligations and burdens, that would occur in any parent-child relationship, including inheritance rights.
Custody would merely give you the right to be in charge of the child's upbringing, education, and so forth.
Gerry Wendrovsky, Esq.- Upper West Side Family Law Lawyerwww.upperwestsidelawyer.com
Answered on May 10th, 2012 at 5:33 PM