Jedd Medefind invites you to watch STUCK adoption documentary from Both Ends Burning Campaign on Vimeo. …
Improving Foster Care and Adoption in Alabama
During the summer of 2012, The Adoption Law Firm met with key Alabama Legislators to improve foster care and adoption in Alabama. We put our heads together with Speaker Hubbard’s Office to put some proposals together to improve foster care and …
Alabama’s New International Adoption Law is Up and Running!
This is great news for international adoptees in Alabama. The new law applies where the adoption was finalized in the home country and the adoptee has received a Certificate of Citizenship. Adoptees from places like China, Ukraine, and Hungary often …
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Russia’s New Adoption Ban
The landscape of international adoption is seeing some drastic changes. No longer will U.S. citizens be allowed to adopt from Russia. How many children will this actually affect? According to the 2010 - 2011 statistics, almost 1,000 Russian …
So Why Do You Need an Adoption Attorney?
Most domestic adoptions are not contested. Most are not scandals. When they are they make the news, and a fresh batch of prospective adoptive parents are scared away. What parent wants the lingering uncertainty of their precious child being taken …
We Love a Good Christmas Adoption
Adoption stories are exciting to me all the year round, but especially at Christmas. I love to hear of a family put together, a family mended, right around the time that we celebrate God mending His family. It’s also the time of year we brought our …
Changing Landscape of Intercountry Adoptions from Russia to the US
Ever since 2010, when the US adoptive mother put the 7 year old Russian adoptee on a plane back to Russia with a note, US-Russian adoptions have been ... well ... a little tumultuous. For a while, understandably, all adoptions between from Russia to …
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Foster Care Training: Group Process Selection
Each state can be a little different with their requirements regarding foster care. Usually a state will require a prospective fostering or adoptive couple to complete a home study, criminal and abuse background clearance, and some kind of training …
Georgia Embryo Adoption
GEORGIA ADOPTION LAW: EMBRYO ADOPTION Adoption, though at a glance seems relatively simple, is a complex and oftentimes difficult area of U.S. law to grasp. Georgia adoption law is no exception, but understanding some of the basics of this state’s …
