With the passage and implementation of Adoption and Safe Family’s Act of 1997, thousands of adoptions of children and youth from the foster care system are occurring in every U.S. state and territory each year.  After parental rights have been terminated, each adoption requires close collaboration between the lawyer finalizing the adoption and the social

With the passage and implementation of Adoption and Safe Family’s Act of 1997, thousands of adoptions of children and youth from the foster care system are occurring in every U.S. state and territory each year.  After parental rights have been terminated, each adoption requires close collaboration between the lawyer finalizing the adoption and the social

Some days are more significant than others in our world of adoption.  Friday, June 26, 2015, was one of those days.  For twenty five years I have represented same sex couples in the endeavor to build their families.  Until that recent Friday in June, children born or adopted into these families were especially vulnerable.  For

THE PROBLEM In today’s modern family it is not unusual for a parent to marry and the new step parent to assume the role of the second primary parent to the child.  I will explain the legal implications of this arrangement using the most common scenario- a household consisting of a biological mother and step

Recently an article appeared in the New York Times authored by a reporter who had adopted two children from South Korea. She traveled to South Korea this Fall and met with several adult adoptees who had moved back to South Korea as adults in an attempt to reconnect with their pre adoption culture. Their views

This blog post specifically addresses gestational surrogacy law in Pennsylvania, and why Pennsylvania has been a surrogacy friendly state for many years. You may have heard the fact that each state in the United States has different surrogacy laws. This is true. In some states it is much “safer” to proceed with a surrogacy. Indeed,