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Adoptions And Adoption Filing | Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court - Probate Division

1 Lakeside Ave., Rm. 257, Cleveland, OH 44113

Single persons or married couples may adopt. Minor children may be adopted. Other eligibility may apply. Release of information may be available only to certain persons and in certain situations depending on age of adoptee and date adoption was granted.
M-F: 8:30am-4:30pm.
https://probate.cuyahogacounty.us

Before filing, it is best to phone for complete information M-F: 8:30am-4:30pm. It is preferred that persons wanting to adopt call for themselves.

Fixed fee.

Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Description

Presides over adoption hearings and grants adoptions. Processes different types of adoptions including agency, independent (child related to person wanting to adopt), and interstate. Handles adoptions where Cuyahoga County is the location of the agency having custody of child, where child was born, where person(s) seeking to adopt resides, where adopting person is stationed in military service, or where natural parent resides (for independent placement). Performs home studies for independent adoptions. Processes petitions for foreign adoptions and release of identifying information, vital statistics, and medical information regarding adoptions.

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Providing organization

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court - Probate Division

Supervises the administration of estates and trusts relating to wills. Also has jurisdiction of guardianships, adoptions, marriage licenses, name changes, land appropriations, and hospitalization of mentally ill persons.