Adoption and estate planning intersect more often—and more deeply—than many families realize. When a child joins your family through adoption, […]
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Do You Need a Home Study Update?
Your adoption journey may be fairly brief and simple or it may be long and complex. Sometimes it’s hard to […]
Reality Show Revisits an Adoption Decision
Reality TV — love it, hate, or never think about it, you can’t deny that it’s an important part of […]
What’s an Identified Adoption?
An identified adoption, also sometimes called a designated adoption, is an adoption of a child already known to the adoptive […]
Stepparent Adoption and the Extended Family
There are plenty of good reasons to adopt your stepchild. You’ll provide a sense of stability and unity for the […]
Change in the Adoption Tax Credit
Senator Kevin Cramer has announced a change in the Adoption Tax Credit. “During a hearing today in the House Ways […]
Can You Adopt If the Biological Parent Is Incarcerated?
The adoption journey can be long and complicated, and it can be full of surprises. For example, you might meet […]
Stepparent Adoption: What If the Other Parent Doesn’t Agree?
In the ideal stepparent adoption journey, one of the biological parents wants their spouse to adopt their child, and the […]
