If you are asking this question you are probably considering the possibility of adoption<\/strong>.\u00a0 There are a variety of situations where a person might adopt a child<\/strong>.\u00a0 Perhaps you are raising your grandchild, and think its time to adopt.\u00a0 Or maybe you have a step-child and the other natural parent is not involved with the child.\u00a0 Or maybe you are looking to adopt a new-born baby.\u00a0 Whatever the situation, adoption<\/strong> can be very complicated, and emotionally intense.\u00a0 The caring professionals of Purple Law Firm can help. <\/a><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 You have to file a petition to terminate the parental rights<\/strong> of any living natural parent<\/p>\n The termination of parental rights is extremely serious and permanent, therefore there are certain legal grounds for termination which must be proven to the court by you.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 You have to file a petition to adopt the child in question.\u00a0 Again this is a very serious request to make of the court, therefore you must show the court that you are ready, willing, and able to adopt<\/strong> the child in question, and that it is in the child’s best interest to be adopted<\/strong> by you.<\/p>\n Please contact an experienced family law attorney<\/a> to discuss the process of adoption<\/strong> as it relates to your situation.<\/p>\n Look for more information on the general process of adoption in this blog. Or go to our page: Chattanooga Adoption Attorneys of Purple Law Firm <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adopt a Child in Tennessee If you are asking this question you are probably considering the possibility of adoption.\u00a0 There are a variety of situations where a person might adopt a child.\u00a0 Perhaps you are raising your grandchild, and think its time to adopt.\u00a0 Or maybe you have a step-child and the other natural parent is not involved with the child.\u00a0 Or maybe you are looking to adopt a new-born baby.\u00a0 Whatever the situation, adoption can be very complicated, and emotionally intense.\u00a0 The caring professionals of Purple Law Firm can help. The process of adoption requires several steps: 1.\u00a0 You have to file a petitionRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[42,319],"yst_prominent_words":[473,467,469,465,350,354,470,453,468,355,347,475,471,476,472,393,466,352,344,474],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-97","6":"format-standard","7":"category-adoption","8":"category-family-law-attorneys","9":"post_tag-adoptions","10":"post_tag-termination-of-parental-rights"},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Todd Couvillon","author_link":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"hoot-small-preview":false,"hoot-large-preview":false,"hoot-medium-preview":false,"hoot-wide":false,"hoot-extra-wide":false,"hoot-boxcontent":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Todd Couvillon","author_link":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Adopt a Child in Tennessee If you are asking this question you are probably considering the possibility of adoption.\u00a0 There are a variety of situations where a person might adopt a child.\u00a0 Perhaps you are raising your grandchild, and think its time to adopt.\u00a0 Or maybe you have a step-child and the other natural parent…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplelawfirm.com\/law-and-you-chattanooga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The process of adoption requires several steps:<\/strong><\/h2>\n