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Regarding the foster issue, you'd have to check with your agency/worker, since I think it varies from state to state. In my state (CA), though rights were already terminated, and I went into the process with the intent of adopting, while the kids are in your home and not yet finalized, they're still foster children, so you have to be a licensed foster parent. When I did it (don't know if it's changed since), it was a minimum of 6 months before I could sign the papers agreeing to the adoption, and then months more before the court date came around.
Oh, yeah, the other meaningless tangle I had to get through was getting two sets of fingerprints! The adoption and foster care people apparently don't talk to each other about such things. You'd think there'd be a centralized database, but no . . .
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