Children & Family Services

Programs and services for Orange County children and their families.

Featured Services

Adoption Overview

Man and Child Adoption is the permanent, legal transfer of parental rights and responsibilities from a child’s birth parents to the adoptive parents. There are four basic ways to adopt: international adoption of a child from another country; adoption through a private adoption agency; independent adoption arranged directly with the birth parents; and adoption of children in foster care through a public agency.

Child Support Overview

Twin Girls Any parent or person who has legal or physical custody of a child can get help in locating the child's other (non-custodial) parent, establishing a child's paternity (legal fatherhood), establishing a child support order, modifying or adjusting a child support order, obtaining health insurance for a child, collecting current child support, and enforcing a child support obligation (collecting past due child support) by completing an Application for Services form.