31
Jul
Facing a Contested Adoption: What You Need to Know and How Tate Healey Webster Can Help
The journey towards adoption is filled with hope, anticipation, and sometimes a few bumps. Perhaps the most stressful situation, though, is when hopeful adoptive parents receive news a birth parent may contest the adoption. This situation occurs most often when the birth mother c...
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31
Jul
Florida Foster Care Adoption Benefits Expanded
Thank you to Governor DeSantis for signing House Bill 1083 into law, which expands adoption benefits payable to public employees who adopt a foster care child. Here are the pivotal changes to Florida Statutes 409. 1664, which go into effect July 1, 2024: * A $25,000 per child lump...
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31
Jul
Changes to Florida’s Private Adoption Laws, Taking Effect July 1, 2024
Tate Healey Webster is proud to represent adoption agencies across the state. We keep our finger on the pulse of evolving adoption and ART laws and issues, and always provide our firm clients with important updates and practical advice on how it affects their practice. Below is a...
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31
Jul
Social Security Benefits for Children in Foster Care
Many children in foster care qualify for social security benefits; however, what happens to the benefits received by the Title IV-E agency (foster care agency) as payee can vary state-to-state. Over the past couple of years, there have been numerous articles about states that col...
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31
Jul
Birth Parents: Become Informed Before Making an Adoption Plan
Making an adoption plan is a brave and courageous decision. If you are exploring adoption as an option or have made a decision to place your child for adoption, you should make sure to become informed about your rights. An adoption attorney can provide you not only with an o...
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31
Jul
Intestate Compact Involving the Placement of Children Across State Lines
Except in close relative placements, if you are adopting a child from another state, you must receive approval from the Interstate Compact Office in your state of residence and the child’s state of residence (or place of birth) before traveling home with the child. Failure to do ...
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31
Jul
Adoption Subsidies for “Special Needs” and “Difficult to Place” Children in PRIVATE Adoptive Placements
Adoption is beautiful and emotional and, in some cases, arises from heartbreaking situations. We are often contacted when a custodial birth mother passes away, the father is not involved/has no interest in the child, and a relative/family friend agrees to adopt the child, but is...
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31
Jul
California bans Adoption Facilitators
California has outlawed the use of unlicensed facilitators to broker adoptions or match prospective parents with pregnant mothers. Advocates of the new law allege many facilitators operate with little oversight, charge exorbitant rates to potential adoptive parents, and take adv...
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31
Jul
Hospital Packing List for Adoptive Parents
Hospital Packing List for Adoptive Parents So, you are adopting an infant, and you get that much-awaited call telling you that your baby is on the way! Whether you have expected the call for months because of a lengthy match period or whether the call was completely unexpected an...
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31
Jul
Federal Adoption Tax Credit Increases To $15,950
Federal Adoption Tax Credit Increases To $15,950 The IRS issued Rev. Proc. 2022-38 on October 18, 2022, and the details of the Federal Adoption Tax Credit for adoptions finalized in 2023 are as follows: For adoptions finalized in 2023 the maximum credit will be $15,950 and the ma...
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31
Jul
Is It Too Late To Adopt? The Adoptee Is An Adult.
IS IT TOO LATE TO ADOPT? THE ADOPTEE IS AN ADULT. Often times, we are contacted by individuals who are concerned their ability to adopt has expired by virtue of the proposed adoptee having reached the age of majority. We love to bring joy and hope when we explain that it is not t...
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31
Jul
Pregnant or Parenting: 5 Questions You MUST Ask an Adoption Lawyer
Are you pregnant and considering adoption? Are you an adoptive parent looking to start an adoption journey? If the answer to either of those questions is yes, you will need an adoption lawyer. Why Do I Need to Consult an Adoption Attorney? Although many adoptions go through seaml...
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