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The Adoption Law Firm

Local Firm for Family Law

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Alabama Adoption Law Basics: What is adoption? Who can adopt? Who can be adopted?

January 5, 2017 //  by Sam McLure

BASICS OF ALABAMA ADOPTION LAW: WHAT IS AN ADOPTION? WHO MAY ADOPT? WHO CAN BE ADOPTED? Have you ever wondered how adoption is defined in Alabama? Or what about who is capable of adopting someone? How about even who is eligible to be adopted? The …

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Celebrities and Adoption

January 4, 2017 //  by Sam McLure

What do Steve Jobs, Sarah McLachlan, Tommy Davidson, and Jamie Foxx all have in common?  They were given a life through adoption, rather than having it taken away through abortion. Are you pregnant and considering abortion?  Or do you know someone …

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Orphan Care I.Q. Test – How Many Orphans?

January 3, 2017 //  by Sam McLure

What's your Orphan Care I.Q.? Do you know what the need is world wide?  That seems like an important thing to know.  After all, James says that visiting orphans in their affliction is an essential element of pure religion.  (James 1:27) How …

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Happy Christmas Adoption Day!!

December 22, 2016 //  by Sam McLure

Happy Christmas Adoption Day!  And thank you to Judge Elizabeth North for presiding over an excellent courthouse.  Holding this precious baby was the best part of my day. …

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How Long Does it Take to Adopt a Newborn?

December 20, 2016 //  by Sam McLure

The waiting period for adopting a domestic newborn can vary from less than one month to over two years.  According to Adoptive Families Magazine's article, How Long Does it Take to Adopt a Child?, 33%  of domestic newborn adoptions having waiting …

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Writing a Letter of Reference for an Adoption Home Study

December 19, 2016 //  by Sam McLure

When a family goes through the adoption process, whether it be domestic or international, they must complete a Home Study.  An essential element of the Home Study process is for the prospective adoptive family to furnish several letters of …

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Timothy J. Keller, Tomatoes, and Adoption

December 14, 2016 //  by Sam McLure

Tim Keller’s, Ministries of Mercy, was first published in 1989.  I turned 8 years old in 1989.  My grandfather, the Rev. James Perry, recently passed on a copy of Mercy to me – tucked in a box with some old books.  I love it when my grandfather gives …

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Give the Gift of Orphan Care

December 13, 2016 //  by Sam McLure

The End of Orphan Care. "The End of Orphan Care is written by a man who is involved in every area of orphan care to which he speaks in this book: in government, in the home, and in the church. . . . [H]is heart for this book is for the church of …

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Embryo Adoption Connection

December 12, 2016 //  by Sam McLure

We live in a very strange age of ethical quandaries.  Currently in the United States, there are over 500,000 frozen embryos, or “snowflake babies,” waiting for their chance to really live.[1] For decades medical textbooks have presented the …

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