Adoption establishes a legal parent-child relationship and, in all but second-parent adoptions and stepparent adoptions, terminates the parent-child relationship between the child and birth parents. Said differently, after the court grants an adoption, the parental rights of the biological parents come to an end and the adoptive parents become the child’s legal parents. Guardianship, on […]
When a baby is born, the hospital will complete an application for the newborn’s birth certificate and send it to the state or local department of health, depending on the state in which the birth mother gives birth. The birth mother’s name and the birth father’s name, if he has signed a paternity affidavit at […]
Even if you do not have Medicaid or insurance and are thinking about putting up your baby for adoption or more correctly making an adoption plan for your baby, you should contact us at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, PC (“Kirsh & Kirsh”). We can help get you prenatal care and your medical expenses paid. Our […]