Adoption

• About adoption
  • Adopting a child
  • Differences between biological and adoptive parenting
  • Adoption programs
  • Adoptive parent education
• For birth parents
  • Consent to adoption
  • Finalising adoption
  • After your child is adopted
• Adopting a child from Queensland
  • General Children's Adoption Program
  • Frequently asked questions about Queensland adoption
• Adopting a step-child or relative
  • Relative and Step-Parent Adoption Program
  • Issues to consider
  • Alternatives to adoption
  • Consent requirements
  • Leave of the Family Court
• Adopting a child with special needs
  • Special Needs Children's Adoption Program
• Adopting a child born overseas
  • Intercountry Adoption Program
  • Overseas country information
  • Frequently asked questions about overseas adoption
  • Intercountry adoptive parent education
• After adoption
  • Release of information
  • Mailbox Program
• Library
• Contacts
  • Community organisations
  • Other government contacts
  • Raising concerns or complaints

Finalising adoption

Where parents do not revoke their consent to their child's adoption, this is what happens to finalise the adoption of a child:

• Our department considers the child's specific needs and selects the most suitable family from a list of approved prospective adoptive parents in Queensland.
• After suitable prospective adoptive parents have been selected for the child, arrangements are made for the child to be placed with the adoptive parents and an Adoption Order is made in favour of the adoptive parents.
• After an Adoption Order has been made, the child is provided with a new birth certificate, naming the adoptive parents as the child's parents.
• The child's original birth details no longer appear on the child's birth certificate.
• The child's adoptive parents become the child's legal and permanent family after the Adoption Order has been made.

Further information

For further information about placing a child for adoption in Queensland, contact our Adoption Services Queensland Unit.

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Last updated

19 October 2007