AboutPeter C. Winkler, CSW Expertise I have experience with adoption subsidy, the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children and variety of other adoption related matters. I hope that I can be helpful to those who are considering adoption or would like to adopt a child.
Experience I am a social worker with an MSW and I have over thirty years of experience in family and children's services. I have worked as Director of adoption services and of the Interstate Compact in a large state agency. I have also provided direct services to children and families in a preventive services program. I currently prepare adoption studies for those who are adopting domestically or internationally.
Question i have 4 kids and the youngest is by my current boyfriend. We have been talking about letting him adopt them. we stay in the state of alabama and i don't know who to call.If my boyfriend adopts will he get money for adopting my kids even if we live in the same household?
Answer Dear Kane-
Sometimes grandparents or aunts or uncles will be able to get payments if they adopt a child in the family. This is called kinship adoption subsidy. It would not apply in the case of your boyfriend; even if he married you. In most cases courts would want you to be married to him before he could adopt the 3 children that are not his offspring. Once he adopted those children, their birthfathers would no longer be responsible for financial support, but he would be.
