Adult Adoption

Petition for Adoption

□ Petitioner’s Driver’s License
□ Adoptee’s birth certificate
□ 1.
□ Petitioner’s Marriage Certificate (if applicable)
□ $75 check made out to: Judge of Probate

Consents
□ Consent for Adoption of Adult by Adoptee
□ Petitioner Consent for Adoption of Adult
□ 2. □ Petitioner’s Spouse’s Consent for Adoption of Adult
Do not need natural parent’s consent
No Notice to DHR required; no home study required

□ 3. Final Decrees of Adoption (x2)

New Birth Certificate information
□ Report of Adoption
□ Request for New Birth Certificate
□ 4. □ AL Vital Statistics Birth Certificate
$25/$10 check made out to: Center for Health Statistics if AL/non-AL
birth certificate (respectively)

□ Adoption Code: 26-10A-1 et seq.

□ Step-Parent Adoption Specific: 26-10A-27
□ Eligible children: 26-10A-6
Applicable statutes
□ Consent or relinquishment; generally: 26-10A-7
□ Consent or relinquishment; content: 26-10A-11