Adoption is an important way to protect your family as a couple and ensure that the non-biological parent of your child is “confirmed” as a legal parent in the eyes of the law.
Even if you are married and both parents’ names are on your child’s birth certificate, a confirmatory adoption goes further in protecting your legal relationship with your child. These legal protections are recommended by such organizations as the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Gay and Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and Lambda Legal.
What Is a Confirmatory Adoption?
A confirmatory adoption order provides these important protections:
If your family travels or moves outside of Wisconsin where different laws on legal parentage may apply, a Wisconsin confirmatory adoption order will be honored and given Full Faith and Credit (recognition and acceptance of other states' public records, judicial proceedings and legislative acts), as required by the U.S. Constitution.
If the Wisconsin legislature changes the law regarding parentage in the future, a court order of confirmatory adoption will freeze time and survive the changes in the law.
If a biological parent, family member or donor challenges your family in court, an adoption order will provide much stronger protection than just a birth certificate.
We believe in making this as easy and nonintrusive as possible. Adoptions of Wisconsin Inc. can provide the required confirmatory adoption screening, which includes an interview by a social worker in your home, background checks and collecting the required documents. Adoptions of Wisconsin will prepare the required report to be filed with the court.
Adoptions of Wisconsin Inc. Stands With the LGBTQ+ Community
Adoptions of Wisconsin Inc. believes families come in many different forms. We do not discriminate based on age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status or fertility status. We welcome all those who are interested in building their family through adoption and equally support each and every adoption journey.
If you and/or your partner identify as LGBTQ+ and are hoping to adopt, you have come to the right place. At Adoptions of Wisconsin Inc., we offer home study screenings for both two-parent and embryo adoptions. We want all prospective parents to succeed in their hopes of starting or continuing a family through adoption and help them secure legal, equal rights to their children.
Adoptions of Wisconsin Inc. is a proud affiliate of the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce.
