Pierce County - South King County
Tacoma Step Parent Adoption Lawyer

Pierce County family law attorneys Cameron Fleury and Rachel Rolfs can assist you if you are interested in becoming the adoptive parent of the child, or children, of your spouse. Contact our Tacoma lawyers the Law Offices of Fleury & Associates, Family Law and Mediation, Inc., and find out everything you need to know about this process.

Washington State stepfather or stepmother adoption generally involves several steps. First, you need to demonstrate you are married to the parent of the child, and have been for at least 1 year. Next, a Pierce County child welfare official known as a "next friend" is responsible for performing a home study and investigating the background of the adoptive parent.  Also background checks must be run on both the natural parent and step-parent.

Before these processes get beyond the planning stage, it's essential that any living parent, which will effectively be replaced by the adopting parent, have his or her parental rights terminated. This is done by consent, where the biological parent agrees to relinquish any interest in continuing as the recognized parent of the child.

Washington step Parent adoption lawyers Cameron Fleury and Rachel Rolfs can advise you about all aspects of adopting the child of your spouse. For more information, contact our Tacoma adoption attorneys.

Tacoma step parent adoption attorneys Cameron J. Fleury and Rachel Rolfs represent prospective stepmothers and stepfathers who wish to adopt the child of a spouse or partner in Pierce County, South King County, Puyallup, Lakewood, University Place, Bonney Lake, Fife, Spanaway, Sumner, Federal Way, Kent, and Auburn WA. Washington State stepparent adoption lawyers Cameron Fleury and Rachel Rolfs also serves military personnel serving at Ft. Lewis, McChord Air Force Base, or the Bangor Trident Submarine Base.