NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT
STREET ADDRESS
CITY, STATE, ZIP
TELEPHONE NUMBER

NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED
STREET ADDRESS
CITY, STATE, ZIP
TELEPHONE NUMBER

NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT and
NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED  , IN PRO PER

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 
FOR THE COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO 

In the Matter of the Adoption of

NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED,

An Adult Person
	Case No.  

ORDER OF ADOPTION	

	The petition of NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT and NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED for adoption came on regularly to be heard on INSERT HEARING DATE in Department INSERT DEPARTMENT NUMBER of this court, before the Honorable INSERT JUDGES NAME, Judge of the Superior Court. Both petitioners appeared along with their attorney and/or spouses. 
LIST ATTORNEY NAMES IF ANY  LIST ALL SPOUSES NAMES IF ANY

The court, having examined the petitioners, and received and considered the testimony and documentary evidence and arguments finds as follows:

1.	Petitioner NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT has attained the age of majority and is older than the petitioner  NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED.
2.	Petitioner NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED is an adult.
3.	Petitioner(s) NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT and NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED is/are resident(s) of Sacramento County, California.
4.	On or about DATE ADOPTION AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED, petitioners entered into a written agreement by which petitioner NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT Agreed to adopt petitioner NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED, and the latter agreed to be adopted by the former, and the petitioners agreed to assume toward each other the relation of parent and child.
5.	NAME OF SPOUSE OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED, the spouse of petitioner NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED, has consented in writing to the adoption herein.
6.	NAME OF SPOUSE OF ADOPTING PARENT, the spouse of petitioner NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT, has consented in writing to the adoption herein.
7.	The court is satisfied and finds that the adoption will be for the best interest of the parties and in the public interest, and that there is no reason why the petition should not be granted.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition herein be, and it hereby is granted and approved that NAME OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED is hereby adopted by NAME OF ADOPTING PARENT, and the former shall hereafter be regarded and treated in all respects as the lawful child of the latter and shall be known as:
 INSERT THE LEGAL NAME THE ADULT BEING ADOPTED WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AFTER THE ADOPTION 

A new birth certificate shall be issued reflecting the adoption of INSERT THE LEGAL NAME THE ADULT BEING ADOPTED WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AFTER THE ADOPTION, identified at birth as INSERT THE NAME LISTED ON THE ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF ADULT BEING ADOPTED.  
INCLUDE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE NUMBER, COUNTY OF BIRTH, STATE OF BIRTH

Dated:							______________________________
							Judge of the Superior Court