Bills could streamline adoption process for foster care children

Last Update: March 28th, 2011

Bills Could Streamline Adoption Process For Foster Care Children

There could soon be a faster way for foster parents to legally adopt children in their care. The Michigan Department of Human Services is urging lawmakers to approve bills that would give more people authority to sign-off on the adoption process.

Adopting a child is often a joyous occasion for families but such joy is not always obtained quickly or easily.

"Sometimes you don't get to the adoption until children have been in a home for one, two and sometimes three years depending on the legal process they had to go through," Judge Janelle Lawless of the 30th Circuit Court said.