Texas is making it easier for relatives to adopt children within their own families through a major overhaul of kinship adoption rules announced by Gov. Greg Abbott.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is eliminating 195 requirements while maintaining 55 essential rules focused on child safety, a move aimed at streamlining the process for family members who are already caring for children in need of permanent homes.

“This is a very, very good thing. It’s always the goal to keep children within family,” said Bexar County Children’s Court Judge Charles Montemayor, who believes these changes are long overdue.

The streamlined regulations include several significant modifications: • Housing inspections will now focus primarily on health and safety concerns rather than administra

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