Laws & Legal Issues
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- Parties to an Adoption
- Open Adoption Given Legitimate Standing in California
- Shame and Fear and Hope
- In the Best Interests of Whom?
- My Petition
- Broken Promises
- N. Carolina Father Challenges Utah Adoption Law
- Adoption Agencies Sue State Over Out-of-State Mothers' Rights
- A Student Asks Lezli About Negatives in Adoption
- Greiner Grinds Her Teeth Over "7th Heaven"
- When The Birth Mother Changes Her Mind
- Are You Ready for Open Records?
- Open Records for Adult Adoptees
- Ohio Legislature Votes to Preserve Privacy
- Judge Rules Tennessee Can Open Sealed Records Without Consent
- Anti-Adoption and Open Records Groups Target Texas Lawmakers
- Sealed Adoption Records: Knowing and Noing!!
- Petitioning the Court to Open Your Adoption File
- A Search Triggers New Laws:
- Post-adoption and Kinship Agreements in California
- The Internet Twin Story - Who's to Blame?
- Way Cleared in Oregon for Access to Adoption Records
When The Birth Mother Changes Her Mind
When the birth mother changes her plans, adoptive parents are likely to feel a variety of emotions, which can include anger and fear.... [more]
Are You Ready for Open Records?
When parenting from the needs of the child and not our own needs, we offer our child the opportunity to feel safe and build bridges of emotional intimacy.... [more]
Open Records for Adult Adoptees
A reunited adoptee's concern that adult adoptees are forgotten and the need for records to be opened.... [more]
Ohio Legislature Votes to Preserve Privacy
State laws regarding birthparent.... [more]
Judge Rules Tennessee Can Open Sealed Records Without Consent
How one judge ruled that records dealing with adoption can be opened without consent, written from the point of view of those against it.... [more]
Anti-Adoption and Open Records Groups Target Texas Lawmakers
How one state is changing its views on adoption.... [more]
Sealed Adoption Records: Knowing and Noing!!
A paper on sealed adoption records written for a law school class.... [more]
Petitioning the Court to Open Your Adoption File
How to go about in a court while searching for birthfamilies.... [more]
A Search Triggers New Laws:
Some are saying the importance of adoptees' knowing their personal histories has been overblown.... [more]
Post-adoption and Kinship Agreements in California
Post-adoption and kinship agreement updates as of Jan. 1, 2001.... [more]
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