Family Law: Adoption

Contents: Adoption overview -- Client intake, advice, and consultations -- Home study -- Domestic private agency adoption -- Public agency adoptions -- Independent adoption -- Interstate compact on placement of children -- Biological fathers -- Consent, relinquishment, and termination of parental rights -- Second-parent and co-parent adoptions -- Post-adoption contact agreements -- Indian Child Welfare act -- Stepparent adoptions -- Cost and financing -- Adult adoptions -- Open adoption records -- Disruption -- Failure of disclosure and tort of wrongful adoption -- Intercountry or international adoption

"This book discusses the history of adoption, uncontested and contested adoptions, as well as how to prep for trial"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-401) and index
Contents: History of adoption -- The history of the child welfare system and foster care -- Types of adoption : public agency (foster care), private agency, and Independent (non-agency) -- Consent -- Open adoption -- Transracial adoption -- Same sex adoption -- The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) (25 U.S.C. Section 1901-1963 (2014)) -- Step-parent and second parent adoption -- Kinship care and adoption -- Safe haven laws -- Snowflake adoption -- Wrongful adoption tort -- Adoption reforms -- 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents (NSAP) : domestic transracial adoption

Practice and procedure -- General information and ascertainment of paternity -- Nonappearing birth parent's TPR -- Independent adoptive placement -- Appearing birth parent's consent to voluntary TPR -- TPR checklist for the court, counsel, and agency worker-- Provided by publisher