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My husband and I are adopting my 17 yr. old nieces unborn baby boy that is due in a month. We live in Maryland and she live in Pennsylvania. When can we file the adoption paperwork. Do I have to wait until he is born for the inital paperwork that will give us custody allowing us to take him home from the hospital. Is a homestudy required for a kinship adoption. This will be a closed adoption at her request. She lives in another state. She has stated that she does not want any interaction with him at the hospital. She only has 2 conditions for the adoption. He is never to know that she is his birth mother, or that he is adopted. The birth father is not an issue. He is no longer with her and has stated that he also wants nothing to do with him after birth.