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Can Anything Positive Come From a Disrupted Adoptive Placement?
Occasionally (25-45% unscientifically), expectant mothers who first favored adoption decide to parent. Her legitimate choice can emotionally crush prospective adoptive parents (= PAP), more or less, depending [...]
Name Changes in Louisiana
 Who can request that the name of a person younger than eighteen (a minor child) be changed?Both parents of a minor child may agree and request to [...]
How Does a Non Parent Get Legal Custody?
Our state’s and country’s law stiffly protects the right of a parent (a biological or adoptive mother or father) to custody (the authority to make most decisions [...]
ADOPTION
ADOPTION
How Does a Non Parent Get Legal Custody?
Our state’s and country’s law stiffly protects the right of a parent (a biological or adoptive mother [...]
Adoption Law in Louisiana
Looking to adopt in Louisiana? Our interview with Todd Gaudin, an adoption attorney in Louisiana, will provide [...]
The Adoption Process – What Can I Control?
Written by Laci Richter Adoptive Mom & Author of Refuel Your Wait When my husband and I [...]
Ramblings of a Birth Mom: Adoption Advertising
As a birth mom, I hate adoption advertising. As an adoption professional , I hate adoption advertising. [...]
Adoption Tax Credit: Disrupted Adoption
By now, many of you may have learned that a successful placement and adoption of a minor, [...]
PROBATE AND ESTATE PLANNING
PROBATE AND ESTATE PLANNING
E. Clark Gaudin – A Principled Man
This eighty-eight-year-old, "Clark," "E. Clark," "Mr. G," "Dad," "Pops" departed this life on Thursday, March 19, 2020. [...]
Conservatorship & Britney Spears
The #FreeBritney movement is producing one of the top trending hash tags based on Britney Spears' controversial [...]
Benefits of Hiring A Probate Attorney to Write Your Testament
A list of many things to consider when drafting a client’s testament (and which the client may [...]
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IN THE NEWS
ADOPTION.COM
Benefits of an Adoption Attorney
After sitting down with an adoption assistant and birth mother in Baton Rouge, Louisiana a few weeks back, I had the wonderful opportunity to pick the brain of the firm’s founder and lead attorney regarding the benefits of an adoption attorney.
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Birth Mother’s Perspective of Post-Placement Care
One of the most important hot points for adoption right now is post-placement care. Post-placement care is essential to a birth mother’s mental health and to her future success in life.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND REVIEW
BI business matches birth moms, adoptive parents
Jess Nelson wants to help change society’s perception of the stigma associated with moms giving up babies for adoption.