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Adoption
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Family Law Prof Blog
Cahn: “Old Lessons for a New World: Applying Adoption Research and Experience to Art”
By Family Law
Naomi Cahn (GWU School of Law) has posted "Old Lessons for a New World: Applying Adoption Research and Experience to Art" (24 J. Am. Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (2011)) on…
Health Law Prof Blog
Amy D. Ronner: “When Courts Let Insane Delusions Pass the Rational Basis Test: The Newest Challenge to Florida’s Exclusion of Homosexuals from Adoption”
Amy D. Ronner, Professor of Law at St. Thomas University School of Law, has posted her article entitled "When Courts Let Insane Delusions Pass the Rational Basis Test: The Newest…
South Carolina Adoption Law Blog
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, Affidavits, and Adoptions
The below requirements apply to any civil action or proceeding, including any child custody proceeding, in which the Defendant does not make an appearance. A Plaintiff is required to let…
The Faculty Lounge
What Doris Duke Might Have Said to Chandi Heffner: “Is There a Button I Can Press to Un-Adopt You?”
The rights of adopted children are one of the topics covered in the basic Wills, Trusts & Estates course. Over-simply stated, in most jurisdictions, adopted children are treated as descendants…
Lancaster Law Blog
Clarifying the Adoption Tax Credit and Special Needs Children
Since publishing my recent post regarding The Adoption Tax Credit and Special Needs Children we have received numerous comments and emails asking for clarification. More specifically, most inquiries are related to…
Pennsylvania Family Law
Standing for Foster Parents to Assert In Loco Parentis Relationship to Children
By Aaron Weems
Under Pennsylvania law, an individual stands “in loco parentis” to a child where he or she assumes the obligations of parenthood. In order to sustain an adoption petition predicated on a…
Business Immigration Insights
USCIS Announces Procedures for Adoptions of Haitian Orphans by U.S. Parents
By Suzan Kern
USCIS recently announced how the agency will implement the Help HAITI Act of 2010, which authorizes lawful permanent resident status (a "green card") for orphaned children from Haiti who were…
Family Law Prof Blog
Nikku & Khadka: “Adoption in Nepal: Mythologized, Misunderstood and Mobilized”
By Family Law
Bala Raju Nikku (Nepal School of Social Work; Sutra Centre for Development Education and Research) and Gopal Khadkha have posted "Adoption in Nepal: Mythologized, Misunderstood and Mobilized" on SSRN. Here…
South Carolina Adoption Law Blog
Resource Site for Adoptive Parents
adoptuskids.org
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Conference on Adoption Law Presented by Capital University Law Review and NCALP
Capital University Law School: 7th Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law: Maintaining a Family: Post Adoption Challenges for Families:Join us at this year’s Wells Conference, Thurs., March 17, to hear…