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In order for the Juvenile Court to terminate the parental rights of a foster child, the Juvenile Court must find clear and convincing evidence that:
1) The legal parents are unable or unwilling to discharge their responsibilities to the child, and they cannot be rehabilitated in the foreseeable future.
2) There are no viable alternatives to terminating the parents’...
The adoption homestudy requirements, or more technically referred to as the “Adoption Investigation”, really haven’t changed much in 2026, with exception of now having to include an investigation of natural parents on non-related, minor adoptions. The new law better distinguishes between pre-and post-placement investigation requirements (26-10E-19) and there is now a new cod...
Several amendments to Alabama’s Adoption Code became effective on January 1, 2026. Among the sections amended was § 26-10E-4, which addresses venue. For the purpose of adoption proceedings, venue means the legally proper county and court where a petition for adoption is filed and handled.
What changed? Just one little word. The word “may” was changed to the five-...
Every foster adoptive parent should be conversant with the phrase “no viable alternatives.” It’s a clunky combination of words that simple means, “Guys, we don’t want to terminate a natural parents rights to their child if there is any other way. If there’s a fit relative that comes forward in timely manner, we want the child to go there without terminating their rights.”
...Humanity is divided. It is in our nature to be divided over many different things. Through the distance of time and place, this is a durable truth. Colonizing America didn’t change this and colonizing Mars will not either. This constant division is neither surprising nor novel.
In sincere observations of the human experience, what is surprising and novel are t...