Adopting a child allows you to open your heart and home. Couples choose to adopt for many reasons, but the end result is the same: they want a child to love. While an emotional process, adoption also involves a variety of legal aspects. Adoption law is mainly governed by the states in which the parent and child live. Having the support of an attorney who can advise you on the experience is an invaluable asset during this exciting time in your life.

Our attorneys are available to aid you in a variety of ways during the adoption process, including:

• Agency Identified Adoption: An adoption through a public or private agency



• Identified Adoption: An identified adoption is created when adoptive parents and birth parents connect with each other directly or through an intermediary



• Independent Adoption: An independent adoption is where the birth mother personally selects the adoptive parents through a personal knowledge of them



• International Adoption: An adoption in which the adoptive child is a citizen of another country



• Relative Adoption: An adoption in which the adoptive parent is related to the child



• Stepparent Adoption: A parent’s new spouse adopts the child that the parent had with a previous spouse

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