Adoption & Surrogacy
Legal advice for growing your family.
Adoption, surrogacy, and assisted reproduction each require careful planning to set the expectations of the parties involved, understand legal rights and responsibilities, mitigate risks, manage financial concerns, draft and execute important documents, and navigate court proceedings.
We have experience with these delicate and deeply personal situations:
Agency supervised adoptions
Adoptions through foster care (DCFS adoptions)
Private placement adoptions
Stepparent and second-parent adoptions
Interstate adoptions (ICPC)
Representing intended parents (surrogacy)
Representing gestational carriers (surrogacy)
Donor agreements
Voluntary relinquishment of parental rights
Adult adoptions