An 18-year-old is legally considered an adult. Your granddaughter doesn't need to be adopted because she is no longer a child. She is already your relative. At the age of 18 it is time that she learns to survive on her own.
My 18 year old granddaughter has lived with me all her life. We mutually want to go ahead with adoption, as she wants to have me and my late husband on her birth certificate. We live in West Virginia. There is no info on the birth father, and the birth mother's whereabouts is unknown. How do we go about this? Can we file the paperwork ourselves since she is 18?
1st,
Get a lawyer.
They will help you fill out the paper work and everything.
Cost aprox $10,000, I hope you can get a loan.
I hope everything goes well with you and you grandkid!
You can't adopt an adult.
Will you have to adopt your grandchild to include her on your ssi check?
if grandparent adopt grandchild will thesocial security benefits stop.
if he or she is 18, you don't have to. just get them kicked out and take them in yourself.
No, you don't need to be married and single people can adopt. At least that is the case here in BC. Good luck!
Biologically, the grandchild is a step-grandchild to the grandparent that had no children. In matters of the heart, however, the grandchild is whatever the grandparent feels it is.
Yes. As the legal parents of the mother, any child produced after the adoption becomes your legal grand-daughter.
Grandchild
The grandchild of your grandmother's first cousin is your third cousin. The grandchild of your grandmother's second cousin is your fourth cousin. The grandchild of your grandmother's third cousin is your fifth cousin.
Santa's grandchild is Kellen Welch.
The plural of grandchild is grandchildren.
Second cousins.
The grandchildren would be the parents, aunts and uncles, and first cousins once removed, of the great grandchildren.