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Adoption
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Family Law Prof Blog
Amid NY Officials’ Legal Threats, Christian Adoption Agency Gets Chance for Appeal
By Family Law
From Catholic News AgencyNew Hope Family Services, a Christian non-profit, is defending its long-standing child placement program from New York state officials who say it must shut down if it…
Family Law Prof Blog
Low-Interest Loans Proposed for Adoption Expenses
By Family Law
From The Blade When Angela Boblitt and her husband adopted a baby with Down syndrome six years ago, they found themselves $14,000 shy of the expected finances it would take to…
Family Law Prof Blog
Low-Interest Loans Proposed for Adoption Expenses
By Family Law
From The Blade When Angela Boblitt and her husband adopted a baby with Down syndrome six years ago, they found themselves $14,000 shy of the expected finances it would take to…
Texas Bar Blog
Austin Adoption Day celebrates 23 new families
Thirty-nine children became part of 23 families on November 7, 2019, at the 18th Annual Austin Adoption Day at Gardner-Betts Juvenile Justice Center. Along with more than a dozen attorneys,…
Family Law Prof Blog
Arizona official charged in adoption scheme is suspended
By Family Law
From Fox News An Arizona elected official was suspended Monday after being charged in a multimillion-dollar adoption scheme that allegedly brought pregnant women to the U.S. to give birth and then…
Family Law Prof Blog
Arkansas Judge: Court to Hear 19 Adoption Scheme Cases
By Family Law
From U.S. News & World Report An Arkansas judge ruled Friday that the court will decide individual outcomes to 19 statewide adoption cases against an Arizona elected official accused of human…
Family Law Prof Blog
Families Push For New Hearing in Indian Adoption Case
By Family Law
From The Associated PressFamilies and states looking to change a 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children are pushing…
Religion Clause
Michigan Catholic Adoption Agency Gets Preliminary Injunction Protecting Its Policy on LGBTQ Couples
In Buck v. Gordon, (WD MI, Sept. 26, 2019), a Michigan federal district court issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the state from requiring that a Catholic adoption and foster…
Lancaster Law Blog
Top 10 Things I Should Ask My Caseworker When Considering Adoption
By Holly Filius
When families consider adoption, they have many choices and many decisions. Families can utilize a private adoption agency, where they can provide information to be included in a profile for…
Family Law Prof Blog
Seymore: “Ethical Blind Spots in Adoption Lawyering”
By Family Law
Malinda Seymore (Texas A & M) has posted to SSRN her recent article, Ethical Blind Spots in Adoption Lawyering, University of Richmond Law Review (forthcoming). Here is the abstract:Lawyers engaged…