Annotation Offers couples and singles all the information they need to navigate the complicated and emotional territory facing those who wish to become families using adoption or assisted reproduction.

Your guide to building a family through adoption.

This comprehensive, accessible guide leads you with confidence through every decision you'll have to make during the adoption process -- including the ones that you'd never know to expect. So you've made the decision to adopt. What's next? For starters, how do you know whether domestic or international adoption is right for you? (And what are the real differences between the two?) Adoption insider Elizabeth Swire Falker answers these questions and many more. As an attorney who practices in the area of adoption and has worked with hundreds of families, and as an adoptive parent herself, she offers expert advice on each stage of the process. Complete with checklists, tips, sidebars, and plenty of advice, it shows you how to: Identify which adoption experts you do and don't need Find the right birth mother or choose the right country for your family-and how to spot red flags in potential situations Select an attorney or agency and prepare for your home visit Finance an adoption on a budget, manage the red tape, and get around the roadblocks Navigate all of the complex emotions that surface along the way With Elizabeth Swire Falker's warm yet been-there-done-that voice, The Insider's Guide to Adoption is sure to become a tried-and-true resource for adoptive parents everywhere.

Adoption is a process that can require both time and patience. In handling an adoption case, the lawyer guides the client through the various types of adoptions, identifying and determining the applicable laws to ensure the family can legally finalize the adoption in that jurisdiction. This updated deskbook details the complexities of U.S. domestic adoption law, policy, and practice, and considers issues involved with international adoptions. Written by Jennifer Fairfax, an experienced family lawyer whose practice is focused entirely on adoption and reproduction law, this book provides the fundamentals of the adoption process and guidance on practical issues on each step in the process, including over 200 pages of forms and appendices available online for download. The book covers the primary types of adoption: domestic private/independent adoptions, domestic agency adoptions, and international adoptions. Spanning the full range of legal issues impacting each type of adoption, including Hague, ICPC, ICWA, special needs adoptions and how to get the client from intake to finalization, the book also covers home study, adoption cost and financing, open adoption records, and disruption, among other topics.

A clear and sensitive discussion of the historical and social context of infertility, its emotional impact, the process of coping with infertility, and the latest trends in the adoption field.

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Provides general information about the laws governing adoption for people trying to adopt a child and those wishing to place a child for adoption, explaining the different types of adoptions, looking at the legal procedure, and discussing the costs involved.