When a parent gives up their child to a legal guardian, they’re making the decision to place the child in the guardian’s care for some time, with the possibility that they will recover the child and end the guardianship arrangement eventually. With adoption, however, the process is designe...
Guardianship maybe a temporary arrangement that can be modified or terminated by the court; while adoption is a permanent legal change in the parent-child relationship. In adoption, theadoptive parents assume all parental rights and responsibilities, whereas in guardianship, the guardian has specific ...
If you’re acting as a guardian for a child and are their grandparent, aunt, uncle or otherwise related to them by blood or marriage, you may be interested in a kinship adoption in South Carolina. The South Carolina adoption statute allows a relative of a child (often grandparents, aunts...