All articles about Alaska Adoption Process Guide.
Compare a self-serve Alaska adoption guide against attorney consultations. One prepares you; the other represents you. Here's how to use both without wasting either.
A plain-English breakdown of Alaska's adoption legal framework — from AS 25.23 consent requirements and TPR standards to ICWA compliance, barrier crimes, and finalization in Superior Court.
Alaska is one of the most open states for adoption records access. Here's exactly how adoptees 18+ can obtain their original birth certificate, how birth parents can register, and what the process looks like in practice.
Explore every adoption service available in Alaska — from the Office of Children's Services and licensed private agencies to tribal organizations and legal aid. Know your options before you commit.
The Alaska Center for Resource Families is the primary training and support organization for prospective foster and adoptive families in Alaska. Here's what ACRF offers, how to access it, and what to do when its resources run out.
The OCS website isn't built to guide families. Here's an honest comparison of every free Alaska adoption resource — and where they each fall short.
Adoption resources built for Anchorage don't work in Bethel or Nome. Here's what rural Alaska and Bush families actually need — and what fills the gap.
Alaska's OCS subsidy negotiation starts at zero and closes at finalization. Here's the tactical guide foster-to-adopt families need before that window shuts permanently.
The Heart Gallery of Alaska profiles legally free children waiting for permanent families. Here's how it works, what 'legally free' really means, and how to become a family for a waiting child in Alaska.
ICWA is not a ban on non-Native adoptive placements. Here's what the law actually requires, how tribes regularly approve non-Native families, and what the process looks like in Alaska.
A step-by-step guide to stepparent adoption in Alaska — consent requirements, when you can bypass a home study, how to handle an absent or unresponsive parent, and the Superior Court finalization process.
A comprehensive guide to tribal adoption and Alaska Native adoption — covering ICWA placement preferences, Tribal Customary Adoption, the birth certificate process from Juneau, and what both Native and non-Native families need to know.