In most states the racial preferences of adopting parents can be taken into consideration and honored. However, many state laws specifically prohibit an adoptive agency from denying or delaying an adoption based on the race of the adoptive parents or the adoptee. For example, Arizona law provides: Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the division, an agency, or the court shall not deny or delay a placement or an adoption certification based on the race, the color or the national origin of the adoptive parent or the child.

• What is a foreign adoption?
• What is the court or judge’s role in the adoption process?
• What information does an adoption agency consider when determining whether to place a child with prospective adoptive parents?
• Can birth mothers withdraw consent to an adoption?
• Who must consent to an adoption?
• What methods of adoptions are there?
• What is adoption?
• If you think you are the father of a child, but you are not married and the mother refuses to let you see the baby, is there anything you can do?
• If you are a pregnant and unmarried woman, and the father refuses to acknowledge paternity, what can you do?
• Can courts modify child support obligations?
• What happens if a person refuses to pay child support?
• How does a court determine the amount of child support?
• Can a court require a parent to pay child support?
• Can grandparents have visitation rights?
• What if one parent refuses another parent’s visitation rights?
• Can courts modify custody arrangements?
• Can a court require parents to attend counseling sessions before awarding custody?
• What is supervised visitation?
• In those states that examine the relocation of a parent under a best interests of the child analysis, what are the factors that courts consider?
• Can a parent with custody move out of state with a child without permission of the other parent?