{"id":9978,"date":"2016-06-15T23:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/?page_id=9978"},"modified":"2017-11-16T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:45:11","slug":"adoption","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/practice-areas\/adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"wpv-grid grid-1-1  wpv-first-level first unextended\" style=\"padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\" id=\"wpv-column-d8af8e7079333c86b118281ab84d06b7\" ><h1>San Jose Adoption Attorney<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9985\" src=\"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photodune-9964541-adoption-xs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photodune-9964541-adoption-xs.jpg 538w, https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photodune-9964541-adoption-xs-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photodune-9964541-adoption-xs-360x249.jpg 360w, https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photodune-9964541-adoption-xs-262x181.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/>Adoption is a social\/legal process that creates a new parent-child relationship by transferring parental rights and responsibilities from one adult, usually one pair of adults, to another. Our office has successfully handled many adoption cases, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent Adoption &amp; Stepparent Adoption <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent Adoption<\/strong> is one of the most common forms of adoption. A typical child is a healthy infant. The birth parents retain full legal responsibility for the child until the adoption is granted by the court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stepparent and domestic partner adoption<\/strong>. California courts generally require the absent parent to consent to the adoption. If the child is over the age of 12, the child\u2019s consent is also needed. In cases where the absent parent does not consent or cannot be found, an adoption is still possible, but becomes more complex.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Adoption Attorney Adoption is a social\/legal process that creates a new parent-child relationship by transferring parental rights and responsibilities from one adult, usually one pair of adults, to another. Our office has successfully handled many adoption cases, including but not limited to: Independent Adoption &amp; Stepparent Adoption Independent Adoption is one of the&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":7956,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9978\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjoseattorneys.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}