ADOPTION & ART ATTORNEYS IN MARYLAND, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA & VIRGINIA
Having an experienced, client centered attorney like those at Modern Family Formation Law Offices, to guide you through this journey can help minimize risks and reduce problems that could arise.
Modern Family Formation Law Offices
Our lawyers have extensive experience in representing clients growing their families through adoption, surrogacy and with the use of sperm, egg, and embryo donors in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
The firm handles private adoptions (parental placement and independent), agency adoptions, step-parent adoptions, second parent adoptions, relative adoptions and adult adoptions in all three jurisdictions. The lawyers also work with clients interested in gestational surrogacy and the use of egg, embryo or sperm donors to complete their families. We represent all family types and work with single parents, married or unmarried couples both same-sex and opposite sex and transgender clients.
Modern Family Formation lawyers assist expectant parents, birth parents, intended parents, surrogates, donors (known and anonymous), adoptive parents and minor children through the adoption or ART legal process. We handle Interstate Compact on the Placement on Children (ICPC) cases as well as handling cases involving the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), non-consensual adoptions, Birth Orders (pre-birth orders and post-birth orders), birth certificate amendment process (VA) and the re-adoption and/or finalization process for international adoptees. Our family building experience is unmatched in the DC metropolitan area.
Have you ever been invited to speak on adoption or ART?
We speak at Conferences on Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Technology in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia as well as nationally. She was awarded the 2013 Legal Excellence Award by the Maryland State Bar Foundation for presentations across Maryland and in 2014 accepted an invitation to became a member of the Montgomery County Bar Foundation Leader.
We have presented at ABA Conferences, AAAA Conferences, NBI, Resolve, Inc., George Washington School of Law, UB School of Law, University of Maryland School of Law, American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Association of Tissue Banks, Villanova Law School, Maryland Family Law University, Maryland Judicial Institute, Families for Private Adoption (FPA) and many adoption and surrogacy organizations across the region.
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