Life situations
Adoption
If you would like to adopt a child or would like to put a child up for adoption, then you should seek advice from the Jugendamt (adoption agency), e.g. at your local youth welfare office. Detailed information on this subject can be found on the following pages.
The aim of all adoption agencies is to find suitable parents for the child. The main focus is always on the wellbeing of the child.
To the procedures and services
- Adoption – applying to become adoptive parents
- Adoption – Applying to inspect files
- Adoption eines erwachsenen Menschen beantragen
- Adoption of a foreign child - applying for notarisation in the register of births
- Adoption of a foreign child - requesting the conversion of a weak adoption into a strong adoption
- Adoption of a German child - notarisation ex officio
- Apply for child allowance as an electronic income tax deduction feature
- Apply for parental allowance
- Becoming a foster carer for a child under the age of 18
- Children's passport - application is no longer possible since 1 January 2024
- Passport - applying for the first time for the child
- Procedure for adoption as a child - applying for adoption of minors
- STÄRKE state programme - information for parents
Contact
Bürger- und Standesamt (Bürgeramt)
eMail buergeramt@heidenheim.de
Telefon (0 73 21) 3 27-33 42
Fax (0 73 21) 3 23-33 32