In a Parental Placement Adoption, sometimes called a Private Adoption, there may be a lot of planning before the birth of the child. It may also be necessary to...
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The most difficult part of a parental placement adoption is the search. How do you find the birth mother? How does she find you? Second to this problem is the need...
It is highly recommended that couples seeking a parental placement adoption should retain an experienced adoption attorney as early as possible. It is also...
The Court of Appeals of Virginia has recently issued an important Adoption decision with respect to grandparent rights. The case is Harvey v. Flockhart.The facts...
There are several options for serving notice of an adoption upon a birth father. One of these is providing notice through the Putative Father Registry. Under the...
In the case of Chollette v. Keeling, issued by the Court of Appeals of Virginia on October 6, 2015, the Court upheld service of process upon a birth father through...
Seeking to adopt a child through private adoption requires a high level of commitment. It is not something that can usually be done in secrecy. If you decide that...
Early on in your discussions with the birth mother, you will need to come to a point where you and she have a preliminary understanding that she intends to place...
The most important thing to remember about birth fathers is that in Virginia they have exactly the same rights as birth mothers. This is not true in many other...
DNA paternity tests have in recent years become relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain. Virginia has a paternity statute which states that if any party...
In Virginia, a parent of a child has legal authority to formally grant custody of that child to another person without the need for a court order. It is remarkable,...
