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Originally Posted by tondy24
We recently adopted our daughter from Louisianna and are planning on finalizing in California (our home state). I know that both states require us to wait 6 months post placement before we can get a court date to finalize. The 6 months would put us in towards the end of November and we are looking at moving out of state right at the end of the year. So my question is do you think we will be able to get our court date before January 1st? For those of you that have finalized in California how long after the 6 months was your court date?
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If you have an uncontested adoption your attorney will probably be able to do
'a walk-on' and have any judge sign-off on the paperwork. (You get a finalized order that day and recording requests new birth cert's, ect. That was our experience anyway.) You don't need to be there. If you wait for a court date it can take a few months to get on the calendar, depending on what's going on. There are mass-adoption days in Monterey Park where 300 kids get adopted all in one afternoon. It's fun and goes quickly. If you don't mind the carnival atmosphere it might be a way to get on the docket faster.
The advice that your process time is only as good as your attorney is good. If you are in So. CA and need an attorney let me know. I can recommend two good ones, at least.