little_details: Adoptions in UK: real father adopts his natural son

You've said he was "given into adoption", but then you say that at sixteen he's still in foster care. These are two different things.

Adoption is permanent - the child becomes legally the child of the new family and can inherit automatically if there is no will. They cannot inherit from their natural parents unless there is a will explicitly leaving them something. The natural parents can never regain their rights to the child.

Foster care is temporary, even if a placement lasts for years. The natural parents can still hope to get the child back, and the child is still a member of the "natural" family for inheritance purposes. The child may be moved from one foster family to another for various reasons.

I've never been involved in the process myself, but it takes a LOT longer than two to five days to get approved as an adopter. My ex had a stepmother who was a senior social worker and even she had to go through endless meetings and interviews and counselling before she was approved.

If he's the real father, a DNA test plus the mother's say-so might be enough to get him parental responsibility, but I'm not convinced anyone would even bother once the child is sixteen. At that point they get chucked out of care anyway afaik and can live with whoever they choose to.

Source: http://little-details.livejournal.com/3121135.html

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