ADOPTIONS

Legal Help With Adoptions in Florida

Serving South Florida Residents
St. Lucie/Martin, Palm Beach, Indian River and Okeechobee Counties

Formal adoption can be necessary in many different family situations. The process can be complicated, and legal help from experienced family law attorneys can help smooth the way.

Brandt & Feinberg has a family law practice led by attorney Lee Feinberg, who has more than 15 years' experience as a Florida family law attorney. We provide adoption services and other legal help to clients along South Florida's Treasure Coast.

We handle all types of adoption cases, including families in the following circumstances:

Stepparents who want to adopt their spouse's child: In this type of adoption situation, the most complicated part of the process is that the child's other biological parent must formally relinquish his or her parental rights. Perhaps the other parent has stopped paying child support and has abandoned the child. Or, for other reasons, the other parent has become unfit to maintain his or her parental rights. In simpler cases, the other biological parent willingly gives up his or her parental rights so that the stepparent can adopt the child and assume formal legal responsibility for the child.
Non-relative adoptions or foster care adoptions: In some adoption cases, a foster care family may wish to adopt their foster child — for example, if the child's biological parents are declared unfit or if they abandon the child. In other non-relative adoption cases, we help adoptive parents through the process of a private adoption.
Family adoptions: In some circumstances, a biological parent wishes to give up his or her child to another family member via formal termination of parental rights and then adoption by the other family member. This type of adoption gives the family member the same legal rights and obligations with the child that the biological parent had. For example, a grandparent or a sibling may adopt a child if the parent is no longer able to care for the child.

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