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THE RECIPE: A Successful Adoption
Blends Factors In
THREE MAJOR CATEGORIES:
Learn
About Them All Before Doing Anything- Learning about adoption is a daunting
task
There are so many factors to consider --- and each can change the total "cost." There are countless adoption
websites, but which ones can you trust? If they're not trying to sell something, they're either all fluff and soft music,
or there's so much information you can't make sense of it all. If you're just getting started, this website is for
you. Our office has been devoted solely to adoption since January of 2003. We can help you understand how the process will
work for you.
- How Is Adoption Similar to Biological Parenthood?
After the adoption is final,
adoptive parenthood should actually differ as little as possible from biological parenthood. But all parenting is
more of an art than a science. Is it hard? Yes! Is it worth it? Yes!
- How Is Adoption Different from
Biological Parenthood?
Parenting an adopted child IS different, though. How? An illustration is
probably better than any explanation we can offer, and a sterling example of the art of adoptive parenthood is this
mother's story about adopting from China that appeared in the New
York Times on May 13th, 2007. Read it. Love it. Live it. You won't be sorry.
- Can A Good Adoption
Plan Avoid Some of the Risks Biological Parents Face?
Nothing worthwhile comes without risk. And here too, adoption
is "the same, but different." Obviously, each adoption involves some uncertainties, and most cause some emotional
complexities for adoptees that are discussed elsewhere here. But adoption does
involve many of the same risks and down sides for adoptive parents
that biological parents face. The critical difference is this: The emotional journey that comes with pregnancy does not
happen organically with adoption, and the stresses and strains of parenthood can pile up in different, and unexpected,
places. Consider these stories reported in the May 22, 2008,
Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. Referred to there as "post-adoption blues," these stories illustrate the importance of
thinking about the daily burdens of parenthood when making an
adoption plan. The story notes that "post-adoption depression" is relatively rare, but it is crucial for both
birth parents and pre-adoptive parents to think about the mundane, daily burdens of parenthood in deciding what is best
for a child.
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- Our Office
As
a law office, we owe a fiduciary duty to our clients. Therefore, we must advise our clients:
- Answering
the Call of Parenting Makes You a Better Person
You know this in some sense already, but with adoption, we must
emphasize that Parenting is not just a privilege --- it is a responsibility. Because
while it is popular to say that "Our children are our future," remember that Our parenting is the
future of our children. But efforts to become a better parent make you a better person too, so those efforts are
doubly worthwhile.
- Our Advice to You: Adoption Is About Parenting, Not Just Legalities or Fees
Engaging
our office for your adoption plan is making us part of your adoption team, not just "outsourcing" the legal steps to
the lawyer who quotes the lowest fee. Good parents look at several factors, not just the bottom line. Our mission is helping
people who want to provide good parenting to children who need it. If your mission is to get the lowest possible legal fee,
just be aware that if you hire the lawyer who quotes the lowest fee, you run the risk of getting less expertise than you need.
But having said that, we should also emphasize that we make every effort to help families who cannot
afford our regular fees, and there are several ways to address this problem. For more on this, call us, or see
the Discussion of Legal Fees on our Legal Steps page.
- WE PREFER THAT ADOPTIVE PARENTS SIGN OUR PARENTING PLEDGE
If
our professional services are going to be involved in creating new adoptive parents for a child, we want the adoptive parents
to make personal commitments to good parenting (which, remember, will help them be better people!). Therefore, we PREFER that our adoptive parents sign our "Pledge For Parents Entering
Into An Adoptive Triad," and we ASK the birth parents to sign the Pledge as well. If the
adults in an adoption plan make these pledges for the benefit of the children, those children will get the best parenting
possible. There is more about the importance of our Pledge
on our Emotions Page.
- Also, we are a Georgia law firm.
We can only represent Georgia clients, and Georgia law limits the role attorneys can play in adoption, but this site is meant
to help anyone understand adoption in the U.S.
- We have represented clients all
over Georgia, including the Atlanta area (Fulton County, DeKalb County, Cobb County, and Gwinnett County, for example). But
we principally represent clients living in southeastern Georgia cities and municipalities like Savannah, Wilmington Island,
Vernonburg, Thunderbolt, Tybee Island, Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Bloomingdale (all in Chatham County), Guyton,
Pembroke, Hinesville, Fort Stewart, Richmond Hill, Ellabell, Springfield, Rincon, Metter, Brooklet, Statesboro, Register,
Swainsboro, Vidalia, Lyons, Glennville, Baxley, Waycross, Sylvania, Claxton, Reidsville, Jesup, Ludowici, Darien, Brunswick,
Jekyll Island, Sea Island, Sterling, St. Simon's Island, St. Marys, Kingsland, and even Macon and Dublin. The following counties
are also represented among our clients: Chatham County, Bryan County, Effingham County, Bulloch County, Long County, Liberty
County, Glynn County, McIntosh County, Tattnall County, Camden County, Wayne County, Evans County, Toombs County, Appling
County, Screven County, Emanuel County, Jeff Davis County, Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Treutlen County, Laurens County,
Telfair County, Bleckley County, Dodge County, Wilcox County, Johnson County, Candler County, Jenkins County, Burke County,
Richmond County, Jefferson County, and Washington County. Maybe your city or county is listed here, but yes, they
are also listed here so search engines can find them! (Doesn’t seem to be helping much, though!)
Representation
outside of Chatham County will involve travel expenses, so you may want to call us for an attorney recommendation in your
area if reducing those expenses is a priority.
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1. Finding
a Match
- The "Adoption Triad"
Adoption "matches" birth parents,
and their children, with adoptive parents (these three groupings form what is known as the "adoption triad").
- Already
Have a Match?
If you are looking at adopting a stepchild, relative, or adult, or a child you've already identified
(but isn't related to you), you already have a match. Your next step is getting Legal
Help, and understanding the Emotional Adjustments
you will face.
- Agencies
Historically, licensed adoption agencies
(private and public) have dominated the process of finding adoptive matches. International adoption is virtually impossible
without an agency. Domestically, some pre-adoptive parents are hesitant to get "invested" in one agency and possibly limit
their ability to find other matches outside of that agency's efforts.
- Other Methods
Georgians
can also find a match directly (through friends, families, pastors, doctors, nurses and social workers in labor and delivery
wings of hospitals, etc.). "Do-it-yourself" matching can be hard work in Georgia, but it gives you complete control over the
process. You can also use piecemeal help from others:
- Networkers
An
adoption "networker" helps pre-adoptive couples strike a happy medium between "do-it-yourself" matching and relying on just
one agency. These charge a consultancy fee to help "market" pre-adoptive parents to agencies and birth parents, and they
also help match them with agencies, facilitators or birth parents for particular placements.
- Facilitators
Facilitators
help put birth and adoptive parents together. (Be aware that facilitators in other states may use practices that are common
there, but are illegal in states like Georgia. Many facilitators do a great job, but some charge for benefits they cannot
deliver.)
- Attorneys
As noted above, Georgia law limits the role attorneys can play in adoption. Georgia's
statutory framework guards vigilantly against "baby-selling," and as a part of this strategy, Georgia lawyers cannot "place"
a child in an adoptive home the way lawyers in other states do. Every state's law is different, but Georgia residents have
to live with this rule. If a Georgia attorney promises to "get" a child for you, or asks you to pay a Georgia birth
mother's living expenses, beware: One or both of you may be committing a felony.
- No
Right Method
As with finding a spouse, there are many ways to find a match; no one way is the "right"
way. Every match has its own unique character.
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2. Legal
Steps
- Termination of Existing Rights to the Child
After a match is
made, existing rights to the child must be legally terminated. Agencies usually handle this step in adoptions they arrange.
- Finalization
of Adoptive Parents' Rights
Adoptive parents have to finalize their legal rights in a court proceeding, even if
they have used an agency, and most adoptive parents hire a lawyer to complete this step. Every adoption involves this legal cost.
- Can Both Steps Be Done At One Time?
Yes, it can be done in
independent adoptions (no agency involved), and it is usually done in certain types of adoption; see our Legal
Steps page for details on what legal services are necessary for different types of adoption. We can handle one or
both of adoption's steps for Georgia clients.
- Hiring a Lawyer
Adoption is a private matter
--- you may hope you can just use a friend or neighbor who happens to be a lawyer. But understand the risk of hiring a lawyer
who isn't experienced and familiar with adoption and adoption law.
- Do You HAVE to Hire a Lawyer?
You
have a RIGHT to represent yourself in most legal proceedings; but it's risky. As just noted, it's also risky to use a lawyer
who isn't experienced and familiar with adoption and adoption law. So it's doubly risky to do the legal steps of adoption
without a lawyer if you don't know what you're doing. There's more on this below.
- Getting
the Big Picture
Most of our clients are finalizing their adoptions, but the earlier you contact us, the better
we will be able to give you the big picture. Retaining us early in the process gives you earlier access to legal advice,
and that fee is credited towards the finalization work that will be needed later anyway.
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3. Emotional Adjustments
- The Real "Planned Parenthood"
If there really is such a thing as "planned parenthood,"
it is adoption. Child birth isn't always planned, but adoption requires some serious planning. Dealing with this planning
--- known as the "Paper Pregnancy" for pre-adoptive parents --- is the first emotional adjustment adoption demands. More
on this below.
- Adoption Lasts a Lifetime
All members of the triad will need to make emotional adjustments
they hadn't anticipated. Most adoptive triads manage these well enough; but if ignored, they can become severe. This is
listed third here because it usually comes third chronologically, but DO NOT make your adoption plan without considering
these issues.
- Events Before and After the Adoption Can Raise Emotional Issues
- Infertility
Address
your emotional issues about infertility before embarking on adoption. Don't assume that adopting will "solve" the heartache
associated with infertility. It will make you parents, yes, but it won't "undo" injuries you already have.
- Divorce
or Other Family Troubles
In stepparent and relative adoptions, divorce or other family troubles may have set the
stage for adoption. Here again, adoption may indeed be the best strategy to use in seeking healing and moving forward, but
it cannot alter the past. Those issues will need separate attention.
- Problems That Lead Up to Adoption
The
problems that lead to an adoption plan can hurt the affected children before the adoption and have repercussions afterwards
too. Most adopted children have "lost" one or both parents in some sense, and that hurts, even if they have no personal recollections
about it.
- Agencies Can Help
Good adoption agency workers usually provide adequate counseling
for the issues that arise before, and soon after, the adoption is finalized in court. Independent counselors can always be
consulted, but you should seek out someone who has experience with adoption's peculiar dimensions. Good agency workers are
often more aware of adoption's issues than independent counselors. Of course, long-term issues can only be addressed on a
case-by-case basis.
- Adoption's Roots Sink Into the Soul
The Living
Trust Consecration Ceremony Mr. Bull developed helps address adoption's emotional issues from a Christian perspective.
In any event, you should be aware that adoption's emotional issues can last a lifetime, particularly for the adoptee.
Like Transplanting a Tree, It IS Complex . . . But There Is a Need
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Make
Your Adoption Plan YOUR OWN
Don't just hope for the best. Plan for the best.
Let
God be God --- with both childbirth and adoption ---
but don't let anyone else play God with your adoption plan.
- You Will Feel a Frustrating Lack of Control
Many get frustrated and impatient with the adoptive
process. And many feel that the very procedures that are meant to safeguard the child are harming the child
in other ways. Or they are generally hindering the whole adoption, and thus hurting, rather than helping, the child, or the
family, or both. The trouble is: 1) the procedures really can't flex or change much from case to case, but 2) every case
really IS different. So you can bet that the process will require some things that will seem to do more harm than
good.
- This Ain't "Mail-Order Birthing"
Pre-adoptive parents, don't kid yourselves: Adoption
is not a "substitute" for biological birth in which one "buys" a child. It is tempting, especially in this day and age, to
think of adoption as a "commodity," and that if you "get" an adoption (or even "part" of one) for $200 less than someone else,
you got a better "deal." But choosing your adoption agency, or your adoption attorney, that way is like choosing a church
by how often they pass the plate. It does involve expenses, yes, but adoption leads to parenting, and
you cannot buy parenting. The real "bottom line" on adoption is this: If you are not ready to do the life-long,
soul-searching, hard work of parenting, do not adopt.
- The Law Is An A__, uh . . . , Well, A "Mule"!
Another
problem here is that a contested adoption can expose a serious weakness about the law and the judicial system: They can be
quite clumsy. Reason: One size DOESN'T fit all. Life gives us all splinters from time to time, but taking them out
with the judicial system is going to be like using a hammer instead of tweezers. If that's what it takes, OK, but it's not
going to be pretty. (These days, too few lawyers even recognize this, and of those, many either don't want to admit it, or
hesitate to advise their clients about it, but it's a lesson we should all learn a little better.) See our warning about
contested adoptions here.
- Compare Adoptive Parenthood to Biological Parenthood
The
differences between adoptive and biological parenthood can easily seem unfair and unnecessarily difficult. Unexpected problems
will crop up, at the wrong times and the wrong places. But remember: Not all biological births go as
planned, either, and parents take on previously unforeseen parental burdens all the time. If you gave birth to a child with
medical problems, you wouldn't just leave the child at the hospital because of those problems. Moreover, suppose someone
gave you a child to place in a good, adoptive home --- would you just give the child to the next family who asked?
No. Remember that ALL parenthood involves unexpected risks. All we can do is prepare for them. Plan for the best,
prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected. (For a great example, read
this story of some clients of ours, and how they answered the call of an unexpected risk in their adoption --- with
strength they didn't realize they had until they needed it.)
- Learn What You Want, Work Towards That Goal
To
prepare for adoption, both birth and adoptive parents should learn about all the issues affecting their search
for a match and the emotional complexities of adoption. Set priorities, make a plan, and see that
plan through. Opportunities can pop up, and some truly are "meant to be." But like anything else, most successful adoptions
don't just happen; someone makes them happen. That "someone" should be you.
- Knowledge Gives You Some
Control
This may sound odd coming from a lawyer, but don't just "leave it to the professionals." There are plenty
of people in this field who will promise you the moon --- then send you an astronomical bill --- with a separate charge for
"lunar shipping and handling." Learn about the services you need, what those services should cost, and who can deliver them
with understanding and respect not only for you and your plan, but for everyone involved in your adoption.
- Know
the Legal Issues
Avoid the heartaches, headaches, and expenses of a legally fouled-up adoption by learning about
the legal issues in your adoption. Birth parents want to be assured of their children's legal status. And pre-adoptive parents
have to avoid certain traps or they can become legally ineligible to adopt, ever. Knowledgeable legal
help can insure that your adoption plan complies with all the potentially complex legal
questions involved in finding a match.
- Know the Emotional Issues
Also of critical importance
for birth and adoptive parents is the emotional complexity of adoption. What you don't know can
hurt you. Poor planning or ignorance can cause painful surprises, disappointments, and disillusionments for all involved.
- Parenting
Is Always a Risk
Remember that all parenthood is an adventure through uncharted territory. No one can
eliminate every parental risk. But you can learn what risks you may face, and you can make plans to deal with them.
So take charge of your adoption: Plan for the best, prepare for the worst, expect the unexpected. Learn as much as you can,
set your priorities, map out a plan, and stick to it. The pages described below should help.
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How This Site Can Help With Your
Adoption Planning- Educate Yourself
Adoption IS the choice
you can live with, but if you're just getting started learning about it, it's hard to know where to start. The Internet does
have much of what you need, but it will confuse and overwhelm you. Most adoption websites have either too much sentiment
and not enough information, or too much information and not enough help making sense of it all. Let the Internet be a tool,
not a tyrant: Keep your focus on what you need for educating yourself, making your adoption plan, and sticking to it.
- Adopt
"Need"
The need for adoption IS great (thus the title of the website), but the cost can easily get to be great,
too. Finding good homes for children doesn't happen by itself -- it takes effort, and someone has to pay for that.
- Adoption
Scams
Unfortunately, there are people "on the take" in the adoption business, both domestically and internationally.
That may be too harsh an assessment of some of them --- they would answer that they're just running a business. Your mileage
may vary, and some schemes are only "scams" in the eyes of the beholder, but when people start talking about "helping children,"
there's no telling what might happen.
- Prepare Yourself
This site describes adoption as blending
factors in Three Major Categories, but you can't tackle them
one at a time. You need to understand them all before you do anything. Once you do that, all you can do is your best. Keep
the big picture in mind and you should do just fine. Here's how to get started on your adoption plan:
- The First Category:
The Finding a Match page walks you through what
will become the early steps of your adoption plan. It also includes some general information about adoption and the applicable
laws and procedures in Georgia that will impact your search for a match. Since Georgia lawyers cannot "place" a child with
a family, Finding a Match is something you, and God, must do. What we can do is help you learn
about, plan, and finalize your adoption. Every case is different of course, but this page will give you an idea of some of
the common issues you will face.
- The Second Category:
Before taking any Legal
Steps, go to the Emotional Adjustments page for a look at adoption's emotional complexities and
how adoption practices have adjusted recently to meet the emotional needs of everyone involved. Once considered a shameful
secret (designed primarily to cover up adult failings), adoption today is instead a win/win/win solution focused
on the child's best interests. Understanding adoption's emotional dimensions can be hard, so CONSIDER THESE ISSUES
BEFORE TAKING ACTION ON YOUR ADOPTION PLAN! Also included on this page is information on the Living
Trust Consecration Ceremony, developed to recognize the value of adoption in a Christian setting.
- The
Third Category:
The Legal Steps page explains what factors will affect the legal fees
and expenses involved, and the length of the process; it discusses how to get your legal data to us; and it lists the documents you will
need to copy. (The same list is included in the Downloadable Legal Steps Form, and
it will also come up afterwards for copying and printing if you use the Web-Based Legal Steps Form
on the Forms & Resource Guide page).
- Guidance and Help with ALL the Categories:
The
Forms & Resource Guide page does several things. First, it gives you multiple ways to send
your legal data to us so we can prepare the papers you will need. But since you have to consider factors in Three
Major Categories for your adoption plan, the Forms & Resource Guide page also includes a lengthy
GUIDE TO OTHER RESOURCES section. This section will help organize your adoption-related
searches for other services on the Internet, suggest some helpful resources, and give you some benchmarks to guide your own
searches and evaluate what will fit your needs. Internet searches on "adoption" produce torrents of information, most
of unknown reliability. Having some specific goals and requirements in mind will help you find more than confusion and frustration.
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Legal
Steps: Finalizing Your Adoption
- Retaining
a Lawyer
Retaining a lawyer is a private matter, and adoption is an affair of the heart. Many instinctively hope
they can hire a friend, neighbor, or family member who happens to be a lawyer, ... or a lawyer they've already used for something
else, ... or even that they can do it themselves without a lawyer. That's understandable. But you need more than someone
who understands you. You need someone with experience and familiarity with adoption and adoption law. And consider this:
- YOU
CANNOT INSURE AGAINST YOUR OWN LEGAL MALPRACTICE!
If you do it by yourself, and you do something wrong
--- even innocently --- that causes you significant damage, you won't have any insurance to cover the damage. If you hire
a competent lawyer, not only will such mistakes be less likely, but if they occur, there will be insurance coverage for your
damage. (Granted, you want the result, not "compensation"; but if something does go wrong, any compensation is better
than nothing.)
- But CAN You Do It Yourself Without a Lawyer?
Sure you can . . . in fact,
it's your legal right. But like any complex, important job you try to do yourself, you could pour a lot of time and money
into it, only to find that you can't finish it, or that you've made mistakes (some temporary, some permanent) that you couldn't
have foreseen. There are some things that could be very serious if you don't get them right, and there are a lot of lesser
details that almost certainly won't be as good as they could be. Moreover, if you do not hire a competent attorney to assist
you, you will probably never know how much better your case could have been. If you work at it hard enough, and find the
help you need, it may work out fine. But if you hire an attorney with experience and commitment on adoption's unique issues
and its increasingly complex laws, you won't have to worry about what you don't know.
- Can You Hire a Lawyer
to TEACH You How to Do It By Yourself?
When we started doing adoptions exclusively, we had high hopes for
this --- it seemed like a "win/win" idea. But adoption is more complex than most people realize, and it quickly became clear
that it wouldn't work at all. By the time you pay an attorney to "teach" you how to do it, you wouldn't really save any money,
and we wouldn't really save any time. And, if anything went wrong, guess whose malpractice insurance would be asked to pay?
If we can't offer any savings, and we're going to be responsible for the outcome anyway, this "win/win" idea turns out to
be a "lose/lose" proposition.
- Adoption is a Specialized Area of Law Practice
These days, law
practice (like medical practice) is getting more and more specialized. Many lawyers don't realize how complex adoption has
gotten unless it is a focus of their practice. They think all adoptions are simple, and similar. Neither is true, and our
office frequently gets calls from other lawyers who are unsure of how to proceed with an adoption they wish they hadn't agreed
to do for a friend!
- Beware of Low Initial Quotes for Legal Fees
Most adoptions will have
at least one complication that unfamiliar lawyers won't include in their original fee quote. And something like interstate
adoption is extremely risky for lawyers who don't have experience with it. Be on guard if an attorney quotes a wonderfully
low fee without asking knowledgeable, probing, and detailed questions about your situation and goals: You'll probably have
to pay more later (financially, legally, or emotionally; perhaps all three).
- International Adoption and
Do-It-Yourself U.S. Finalization
- If Your Adoption Is Covered by the Hague Convention:
YOU
DO NOT NEED TO TAKE ANY FURTHER LEGAL ACTION. Adoptions from countries that are participants in the Hague Convention are
automatically binding on United States courts. (This is why non-Hague adoptions must be "completed" via "re-adoption"
or "finalization" --- to make them binding on U.S. courts.) Click to this
newish federal site to see if your child's country is a member country. (The site doesn't play well with all browsers,
but it seems to be the best site around for international adoption if you hunt through it.)
- Should International
Adopters Do Their Own U.S. Finalization?
If you do need to finalize your international adoption, the international
adoption agencies have seemed especially anxious to tell their clients they could do the domestic finalization process without
an attorney. After guiding parents through all of the tedious and difficult immigration laws of two countries, and
the foreign legal procedures, they want to be able to offer them something that is easy and inexpensive. "It's as
easy as signing a piece of paper," one reportedly said. Well again, you can do it yourself, but if it were that
easy . . . if just filling in some forms would work for every case . . . they would give you those forms along with
all the other papers and services they provide. Unfortunately, it's not that easy: Every case is different, every
country is different, and every county in Georgia has different procedures. And technically, advice on how
to do an adoption is "practicing law" --- something only a lawyer is licensed (and insured) to do.
- Get Advice
Before Traveling
There are things you should know about Georgia's international adoption law before you
travel. So don't wait till you get home with your new child to start thinking about this "easier" part of the process.
- Is
U.S. Finalization Even Necessary?
Not for Hague Convention adoptions, but if your adoption does not come
within the Hague Convention, when it comes time to do things like register for school, having only a foreign birth certificate
can cause lots of headaches. Non-Hague foreign adoption decrees aren't legally binding in United States courts if they haven't
been finalized here. This means, for example, that a zealous health insurer or HMO could deny coverage for a large
medical claim on the ground that your child is not really your child. By the time one of these things happens, it may be
impossible, or too late --- not to mention more expensive --- to go back and get your domestic finalization done. Domesticating
the foreign decree is a prudent step that is well worth the cost if it is necessary. But again, the legal process is different
in every state. (Check here to see if a country is a party
to the Hague Convention. As of late 2008, some popular non-member source countries are many former Russian federation countries,
Ethiopia, and South Korea.)
Whatever your situation, the bottom line on legal
help is:
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO MAKE A MISTAKE ON.
- All We Do Is Adoption
Family (re)building is the exclusive focus of our law practice.
Whether you want to adopt (private, public, international, stepchild, or relative) or place a child for adoption, Mr. Bull
has worked on positive solutions to problem pregnancies since 1992, our staff includes an active member of a Catholic Order
to assist in our ministry, Sister Mary Ann Lang, and we can counsel you throughout the process. We offer help with your adoption
plan, advice on other services that will fit your plan, representation in court, ... everything you need to keep your focus
on the big picture. Our office is independent, so your interests will come first.
- Living Trust
Consecration Ceremony
Mr. Bull has even developed a Christian ceremony to consecrate an adoption. Working
with your church, he can arrange and/or direct the Living Trust Consecration, a ceremony
of scripture verses and prayers that will bless and affirm the adoptive entrustment of your child.
- We Are
Computer-Savvy! (Don't Tell Anyone!)
If you like your lawyers "computer-savvy," Mr. Bull admits to the "nerd
factor" of being computer-literate (he wrote and maintains this website, for example). On the one hand, this keeps our costs
down, but at the same time, it limits our ability to provide as much personalized service as we'd like. Nothing in life is
perfect, is it?
- Call to Discuss Your Case
Of course, no lawyer can put the advice YOU
need on a website. We can only give personal attention to clients. So feel free to call us at 912-Adopt-Need
(912-236-7863), and speak to Sister Mary Ann Lang, or Mr. Bull, or send us an e-mail.
Give
a Child the Opportunity of a Lifetime!
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