Tag: Local Adoption Attorneys

Birthmother

I AM THINKING ABOUT PUTTING MY BABY UP FOR ADOPTION, USING ADOPTION ATTORNEYS KIRSH & KIRSH, P.C. (“KIRSH & KIRSH”), BUT CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY ATTORNEY FEES

Birth parents do not pay for the services of Kirsh & Kirsh. The adoptive parents – rather than birth mothers — pay the fees of Kirsh & Kirsh. In addition to providing our services free of charge to expectant mothers, we will arrange for expectant and birth mothers to consult with their own attorney and speak with a counselor, if they wish, AT NO COST. Also, the adoptive parent clients of Kirsh & Kirsh will assist birth mothers with living expenses, as allowed by Indiana law.

Our attorneys have 90 years of combined experience arranging adoptions in Indiana. We help birth mothers and expectant mothers find secure, loving, and happy homes for their precious soon-to-be-born and newborn babies. We have lots of thoroughly investigated, carefully screened families, who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their homes and hearts. Like local adoption agencies and national adoption agencies, Indiana Law allows adoption attorneys to provide adoption services to birth parents, which includes matching birthmothers with adoptive parents of the birthmother’s choosing. We, at Kirsh & Kirsh, give birth mothers and expectant mothers the option of deciding how much involvement they want to have in choosing adoptive parents. Some women want to read about, talk to, and meet prospective adoptive parents. Others want us, at Kirsh & Kirsh, to pick the family.

Our contact information is below.  We will answer your questions and provide you the information you seek, without cost or obligation on your part. In other words, talking to us is FREE and does NOT mean you ever have to talk or text with us, again. We can help you find an AMAZING, WONDERFUL, adoptive home for your precious baby, whether you live in Carmel or Indianapolis, Elkhart or South Bend, Madison or New Albany, or Huntington or Ft. Wayne, or any Indiana county or city in between, or ANYWHERE in Tennessee, Mississippi, or Kentucky.

We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families, FROM INDIANA AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY(married, single, Lesbian, and Gay) who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes and are happy to assist with living expenses to the full extent allowed by law.

You can call, text, and or email us anytime —call: 317-575-5555, text: 317-721-2030, email: AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com, or Facebook message:  https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

POSITIVE ADOPTION LANGUAGE DISCLAIMER:  Please understand that these blog posts are written in a way to use language that people use when searching for help with their adoption plans.  Unfortunately, while all of us understand what positive adoption language means, most expectant moms that come to us at first do not understand what that means. The most common search term on the Internet for expectant moms is “how do I give up my baby for adoption”.  If we do not include those words in our blog posts, and instead put “how do I create an adoption plan for my baby” then our website will not show up in most expectant mom’s search results in Google.

Birthmother

WHEN I TOLD THE FATHER OF THE BABY I WAS PREGNANT, HE THOUGHT I WAS LYING. CAN I STILL GIVE UP THE BABY FOR ADOPTION?

Yes. If you live in Indiana or place your baby up for adoption with an Indiana family and assuming the father of the baby has not legally established paternity of the child, meaning through a court proceeding or paternity affidavit, and assuming that you are not married to him, what the father of the baby believes does not matter. Of course, his accusing you of lying probably hurts your feelings, but under Indiana Law, an expectant mother or birth mother does not have to prove paternity of the child to proceed with an adoption. Furthermore, under Indiana Adoption Law, a birth mother does not need the consent to the adoption of a man who is not married to her or who has not established the paternity of the child, as explained above. In fact, he may not even be entitled to notice of the adoption.

Our contact information is below.  We will answer your questions and provide you the information you seek, without cost or obligation on your part. In other words, talking to us is FREE and does NOT mean you ever have to talk or text with us, again. Our adoption attorneys have 90 YEARS OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE practicing adoption law. We can help you find an AMAZING, WONDERFUL, adoptive home for your precious baby, whether you live in Kokomo or Indianapolis, Columbus or New Castle, Evansville or Scottsburg, or South Bend or Ft. Wayne, or any Indiana county or city in between, or ANYWHERE in Tennessee, Mississippi, or Kentucky.

We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families, FROM INDIANA AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY(married, single, Lesbian, and Gay) who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes and are happy to assist with living expenses to the full extent allowed by law.

You can call, text, and or email us anytime —call: 317-575-5555, text: 317-721-2030, email: AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com, or a Facebook message:  https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

POSITIVE ADOPTION LANGUAGE DISCLAIMER:  Please understand that these blog posts are written in a way to use language that people use when searching for help with their adoption plans.  Unfortunately, while all of us understand what positive adoption language means, most expectant moms that come to us at first do not understand what that means. The most common search term on the Internet for expectant moms is “how do I give up my baby for adoption”.  If we do not include those words in our blog posts, and instead put “how do I create an adoption plan for my baby” then our website will not show up in most expectant mom’s search results in Google.

Birthmother

I FEAR CHANGING MY MIND. CAN I SIGN A CONSENT TO ADOPTION BEFORE THE BABY IS BORN?

Expectant mothers, thinking about placing their baby up for adoption, ask us, at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”) this question often. We prefer to think of giving up a baby for adoption as making an adoption plan for a baby. Some women want to sign a consent to adoption before they give birth, so they won’t make a last-minute, emotional decision to take the baby home from the hospital. While Indiana law permits the father of an unborn child to consent to the adoption of the child, it does not allow the birth mother to sign a consent to adoption prior to birth. This is true whether a local adoption agency, national adoption agency or an adoption attorney handles the adoption. In Indiana, the same laws apply to adoptions arranged by all adoption professionals.

But, speaking to a counselor helps many expectant mothers focus on their reasons for adoption and gives them the tools to deal with their emotions. The counselors recommended by Kirsh & Kirsh will NOT tell an expectant mother what to do, how to think, or how to feel, but will help her think about all of her options so that she can make the best possible decision for her newborn and herself.

We, at Kirsh & Kirsh, have helped numerous birth parents with adoptions over the last 35+ years of the firm’s existence. We tailor each adoption to the circumstances of the birth parents and adoptive parents involved rather than strictly following a set policy and will try to accommodate your wishes regarding all aspects of the adoption, including the timing of the consent signing. If you want to leave the hospital as soon as possible after birth, we will meet you at the hospital, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, including all holidays. On the other hand, we will NEVER rush or pressure you to sign a consent to adoption.

We will answer your questions and provide you the information you seek, without cost or obligation on your part. In other words, talking to us costs you nothing nor does it mean you ever have to talk or text with us, again. We can assist you with an Indiana adoption no matter whether you live in Fort Wayne or Newburgh, Greencastle or Shelbyville, Lafayette or Bluffton, or any Indiana county or city in between.

We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families (married, single, Lesbian, and Gay) who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes and are happy to assist with living expenses to the full extent allowed by law.

You can call, text, and or email us anytime —call: 317-575-5555, text: 317-721-2030, email: AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com, or a Facebook message:  https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone, by a member of our office staff – not an answering service — 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

POSITIVE ADOPTION LANGUAGE DISCLAIMER:  Please understand that these blog posts are written in a way to use language that people use when searching for help with their adoption plans.  Unfortunately, while all of us understand what positive adoption language means, most expectant moms that come to us at first do not understand what that means. The most common search term on the Internet for expectant moms is “how do I give up my baby for adoption”.  If we do not include those words in our blog posts, and instead put “how do I create an adoption plan for my baby” then our website will not show up in most expectant mom’s search results on Google.

Birthmother

Is There Life After an Adoptive Placement?

Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”) have handled adoptions for more than 35 years, involving numerous successful placements. Kirsh & Kirsh began its adoption program in Indiana and has since extended its adoption program to provide adoption services to pregnant women in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

Last week, I, Steve Kirsh, had a birth mother sign a consent to adoption. I then went to the birth mother’s nurses’ station to give the nurses the chart copies of the documents the hospital needed. After reviewing each document with the charge nurse, the charge nursed asked Mary (not her real name), another OB nurse standing nearby in the nurse’s station, if she wanted to share anything with me. Mary then told me that when she was 19 years old, I met her at a hospital in Northeast Indiana to have her sign a consent to adoption for the baby she placed a baby for adoption through the Kirsh & Kirsh Adoption Program. Mary recounted that after giving up her baby for adoption or, more correctly, making an adoption plan for her baby, she graduated from college with a degree in nursing. She became a registered nurse, with advanced training in sub-specialty of maternity care. She and her husband (not the father of the baby) have been married for 20 years. Mary and her husband have 2 children. She recently had the chance to meet the child she placed for adoption years earlier, as well as her birth grandchild. She told me that adoption gave her the chance to see that her child would be loved and well cared for, while giving her the chance to realize her own dreams.

If you would like to explore adoption from your home or even from your hospital bed after you deliver, please contact us at Kirsh & Kirsh. We have helped many women find loving, secure, happy homes for their precious newborns. We can help you, too.

We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families (married, single, Lesbian, and Gay) who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes.

You can call, text and or email us anytime. To contact us—call: 317-575-5555, text: 317-721-2030, email: AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com, or Facebook message:  https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

Birthmother

I Prefer Not To Talk By Telephone And Am Not Ready To Meet. How Can I Get Adoption Information From Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”)?

If you live in Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, or any other state and are pregnant and thinking about giving your baby up for adoption, or more correctly, making an adoption plan or placing your baby for adoption, we, at Kirsh & Kirsh, understand you already face immense stress. Unfortunately, we cannot make your decision easy. However, we have considerable experience handling adoption over the last 35+ years, involving numerous adoptions and can make it easier by providing you the information you want in whatever way you would find comfortable. If you don’t like talking on the phone or just are not ready to take that big of a step, we would be happy to “talk” with via text, email, or website chat. You can reach via text at 317-721-2030, email at AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com, or go to our website, www.LovingAdoptions.com, click on “I’M PREGNANT” and chat box will appear, where you chat with a member of our team.

We will always treat you will care, confidentiality, kindness, and respect. Of the many pregnant women with whom we have worked over years, many, if not most, have needed help paying their living expenses while they were pregnant and during their postpartum recovery, which our prospective adoptive parent clients have gladly provided.

We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families (married, single, Lesbian, and Gay) who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes.

By the way, under the laws of  Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, or Kentucky, a birth mother cannot make a final, binding decision about adoption until after the baby’s birth and then not until she signs a formal consent to adoption in accordance with the applicable Adoption Statutes. Therefore, in no way does communicating – even meeting us in person – obligate a pregnant woman to proceed with an adoption.

We follow your lead in terms of the pace with which we proceed. We will never pressure you. In addition to texting, emailing, and chatting with us, you can call: 317-575-5555 or connect with us through Facebook message: https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to chat, email, and text messages within minutes of receipt.

Birthmother

Who are Kirsh & Kirsh and What Do They Do?

Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”) practice adoption law throughout Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky, including adoptions with other states. We help pregnant women find loving, secure, carefully screened homes for their babies and prospective adoptive parents find babies to welcome into their homes and hearts.

Kirsh & Kirsh provides the same adoption services as adoption agencies, except we do not perform adoptive home studies, supervise adoptive placements, or provide counseling. Wait, Kirsh & Kirsh does not provide counseling to expectant mothers? We do not employ a counselor on our staff because we think expectant mothers and birth mothers should have the option of speaking with an unbiased, independent counselor. We do, however, routinely refer women to reputable counseling providers. Likewise, we do not provide prenatal OB care, deliver babies, or perform newborn hearing tests, as Kirsh & Kirsh relies upon experts to handle those aspects of an adoption, birth, and postpartum care of newborns.

Unlike some adoption facilitators you might find on the Internet, we have a brick and mortar office, not just a virtual, Internet presence. Steve Kirsh started handling adoptions more than 35 years ago. Shortly thereafter Joel Kirsh, Steve’s brother joined him. More recently, Steve’s son, Grant Kirsh, and Steve’s other brother, Rob Kirsh, joined the practice. In addition to having 4 adoption attorneys, Kirsh & Kirsh has 7 other staff members, who also only work on adoption matters. On most days, you will find our four-legged, fury staff members at our office — Yogi and Hanna (depicted in the photo), Wilson, and Louie at the office. Honestly, they spend most of their time at the office asleep!

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If you would like to explore adoption, contact us at Kirsh & Kirsh. We have helped numerous women with adoption plans over the last 35+ years. We have lots of wonderful, carefully screened, loving families who cannot wait to welcome a baby into their hearts and homes.

We will always treat you will kindness and respect. Of the many pregnant women with whom we have worked over years, many, if not most, have needed help paying their living expenses while they were pregnant and during their postpartum recovery.

You can call, text and or email us anytime. To contact us—call: 317-575-5555, text: 317-721-2030, email: AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com, or Facebook message:  https://www.facebook.com/KirshandKirsh/. We answer our office phone 24 hours a day, every single day. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

Birthmother

A Family Approached Me About Letting Them Adopt My Baby – Should I Let Them?

While it may seem like a difficult or overwhelming task at first, the reality is if you are pregnant and thinking about giving up your baby for adoption (or more correctly – making an adoption plan) finding families wanting to adopt a baby is actually quite easy. Someone always knows someone, who knows someone, who wants a baby. Families hoping to adopt may have already approached you or had someone else approach you for them. It may help that your sister or best friend (or aunt, or co-worker, or friend of a friend, etc.) says that they think a particular family would provide a good home for your baby, but are you willing to, quite literally, entrust your child’s life to a person or persons based upon the recommendation of a well-intentioned, but untrained, friend? Do the prospective adoptive parents have health, marital, financial, or criminal problems? A history of substance or physical abuse? Those are not things that people typically disclose to others, particularly if they believe it would reflect on them poorly, and especially if they are wanting to adopt someone’s baby. (These things are, however, disclosed during the home study process.) Sure, you may want to help them, but ask yourself – what is most important to me? Helping a seemingly nice family or being confident you have found a safe, secure, loving home for your unborn baby? Wouldn’t you like to consider a number of already carefully, pre-screened prospective adoptive parents?

Placing a baby for adoption takes incredible courage, thoughtfulness, and most importantly trust that the adoptive parents will provide your child with the best life possible, with opportunities to enjoy life and reach their full potential. That is why you should consider working with a licensed, adoption agency or experienced adoption attorney, who can match you with those carefully screened and homestudy approved families.

We at Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), have assisted numerous expectant and birth mothers find just the right family for their babies. We have four licensed attorneys in Indiana, one of whom is also licensed in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. If you do not live in one of those states we can find an experienced adoption professional to assist you in your state of residence. We will provide you with profiles of lots of wonderful, carefully screened families, and if you would like, we will arrange for you to talk with them by telephone or meet them in person. Or, if you would rather, we will select a family for you. It is entirely your decision. Working with us gives you options for your baby’s future.

You may contact us at Kirsh & Kirsh without cost or obligation on your part. Birth mothers NEVER pay a fee to Kirsh & Kirsh. See what we have to offer before making the most important decision of your life. You can call, text and or email us anytime. We answer our office phone, 317-575-5555, 24/7/365. We also promptly respond to text messages at 317-721-2030 and email at AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.

Birthmother

Time For Every Season

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven . . . .”

For years at Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C. (“Kirsh & Kirsh”), we have told our prospective adoptive parent clients to have faith that when “their” baby comes along, the baby will find his or her way into their hearts and homes. Likewise, we have assured birth mothers that when the “right” family comes along, the birth mother will just know.

Recently, at Kirsh & Kirsh, an adoptive mom came to visit with her beautiful and joyful 3-year-old daughter, who found her way into their family’s hearts and homes by what can only be described as divine intervention. About 3 years ago, a hospital social worker contacted us (we love hospital social workers!) and asked if we could find a family for a newborn, Chinese girl, with Down Syndrome and other medical complications.

Through our national networking efforts, we found the perfect family for our baby – wonderful family who had had previously adopted a Chinese, baby girl with Down Syndrome and other medical complications. Their previously adopted daughter thrived with the love and attention of the adoptive family. Furthermore, the prospective adoptive parents embraced the then current birth mother’s desire for openness in the adoption. After reading the family’s profile, the birth parents talked with the prospective adoptive parents by telephone and then met them in person.

As difficult as the decision was for them, the birth parents LOVED the adoptive parents and knew that the adoptive parents could provide the life, future, and opportunities they desperately want for their daughter. The birth mother and father both had full time jobs, and the birth mother also attended college full time. They loved their newly born daughter dearly, and as much as their hearts were telling them otherwise, they knew that they simply did not have the resources to provide for her in the way she would need. They wanted more for her than they could give, and in the most selfless act of love, put her needs before their own. The adoptive mom, her husband, and other children adore the newest edition to their family and could not appreciate more the loving sacrifice the birth mother and father made for their daughter and them.

We, Adoption Attorneys Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C., have handled more than 3500 successful adoptions over the last 35+ years. You can call, text and or email us anytime. We answer our office phone, 317-575-5555, 24/7/365. We also promptly respond to text messages at 317-721-2030 and email at AdoptionSupport@kirsh.com. We try to respond to emails and text messages within minutes of receipt.