Alameda County Superior Court
Adoption Self Help

How to Adopt a Child

This section tells you about adopting a child in Alameda County.

This section tells you about:

• Agency adoptions
• Independent adoptions
• Stepparent adoptions
• The adoption hearing
• Rights of birth parents
• Birth records
• Adoption terms

If you are adopting a child from a foreign country, click on Agency adoptions above. Foreign adoptions have the same procedures as agency adoptions.