You have to have completed the home study and been approved for adoption. Then if you know a mother willing to give up her child you get a lawyer and she gets one too and they prepare the paperwork. After everyone has signed the lawyers finish it in court where you also have to be to have the adoption finalized.
if the adopting agency believes you are capable of looking after a child
now a stepfather can't adopt a child without the concent of the child's father
You contact a adoption agency that deals with international adoptions.
You cannot. Even in private adoptions - where a birth parent knows you and wants you to raise their child - a home study is required. This is for the protection of the kid.
No. And the child is not given to a agency. If you wish to adopt your brothers child you need to do a homestudy. Without it the court will not approve the adoption. If your brother can not take care of his he can give you temporary custody. He will then pay child support to you. After the home study you can apply for adoption. You will need a lawyer and so will your brother.
You contact a adoption agency that deals with international adoptions.
If the agency find you fit yes.
The State child support agency does this.
no
This varies from state to state. You should call an adoption agency or adoption attorney in the state where the child resides.
Yes, you can adopt anyone before age eighteen, however adopting a child without any last family is immoral, at least to some people. It is for the people to decide if they want to.
No that would be selling your child which is illegal. An adoption have to go through a agency with all the legal papers filled in to be valid.