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Adoption
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Family Law Prof Blog
Adoption in Iowa
By Family Law
From Radio Iowa:Events across Iowa this month aim to raise awareness about the thousands of Iowa kids in foster care and the hundreds who are eligible for adoption. Corinne Sills…
Family Law Prof Blog
Adoption Tax Credit
By Family Law
From Bradenton Herald:November is designated as Adoption Month in Florida.Special events are happening all over the state to highlight the number of children available for adoption in Florida. In the…
Family Law Prof Blog
National Adoption Day Tomorrow
By Family Law
From Las Cruces Sun-News:The local incarnation of National Adoption Day arrived a bit early — most of the rest of the country holds similar events Nov. 17 — but the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Adoption in the Media
By Family Law
From the Huffington Post:Diggs moved ahead with the adoption after the 30 days passed and sees Morgan regularly. The show premieres with her story and that of Morgan's two dads…
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Adoption & Islamic Law
By Family Law
From Professor Faisal Kutty of the Valparaiso University School of Law writing for the Jurist:Conventional wisdom — among both Muslims and non-Muslims — holds that adoption, as practiced in much…
Family Law Prof Blog
Adoption in Northern Ireland
By Family Law
A judge in Belfast has ruled gay and unmarriedcouples in Northern Ireland can now adopt children. The ruling overturns a 1987 law thatdiscriminated against both groups. Thejudge stated the law…
South Carolina Adoption Law Blog
NOVEMBER-NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH
http://www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/nam/ is a great resource for parents seeking to adopt and children desiring to be adopted.
International Law Prof Blog
US-Russia Bilateral Adoption Agreement To Take Effect November 1
The U.S. government has announced that the Agreement between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Regarding Cooperation in Adoption of Children will enter into force on November…
Family Law Prof Blog
Gossett: “If Charity Begins at Home, Why Do We Go Searching Abroad? A Call to Sunset the Portion of the Federal Adoption Tax Credit that Subsidizes International Adoptions”
By Family Law
DeLeith Duke Gossett (Texas Tech University School of Law) has recently posted her article If Charity Begins at Home, Why Do We Go Searching Abroad? A Call to Sunset the…
The Faculty Lounge
Conference Announcement: Intercountry Adoption
A slightly edited version of an email that I received yesterday: In February, the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion and Ethics at the Pepperdine School of Law…