Adoptions

Whether adopting a child or placing a child for adoption, the legal process can be very complicated and intimidating. Adoptive parents may require assistance negotiating a contract with an adoption agency; they may have questions about the information they receive from the agency; they may want to negotiate an open adoption agreement; or there may be post-adoption legal problems that must be addressed.

Birth parents may have legal questions about validity of the surrender documents they signed or the open adoption agreement they want to arrange.

Parents that have remarried might want or need to consider issues as to having their children adopted by a current spouse or permitting a step-parent adoption.

Litigation in adoption and child custody matters can become very complex and protracted. These cases also raise difficult issues of law and child development.

The successful negotiation and litigation of these cases requires attorneys who are familiar with the constantly changing legal issues as well as the difficult developmental and psychological issues raised whenever the courts or parents are considering the best interests of the child.