This full-day basic seminar offers a panel of adoption practitioners - legal, agency, administrative and judicial who will discuss the current adoption law together with legal and ethical considerations.
Topics to include:
Overview of NH Adoption Law with Judicial Perspective
Representing Birth Parents
Agency Adoptions
Representing Adoptive Parents
Interstate Adoption Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
Adoption Tax Credit/Benefit
Step-parent Adoption
Re-Adoption in New Hampshire for International Adoptions
Practice Tips Discussion of ethics and professionalism; Interplay of Termination of Parental Rights, Guardianship and Adoption
Who should listen?
Family law practitioners and anyone with an interest in learning the basics of Adoption practice as well as the interplay of Adoption, Termination of Parental Rights and Guardianships.
Written materials are included.