While starting the adoption process, prospective adoptive parents commonly have questions about the initial home study. Criminal and child abuse background checks are part of the home study process. One question our office receives is whether a past criminal conviction will result in the prospective adoptive parents being denied a…
With Halloween around the corner, the end of the year will swiftly follow. Jeanne T. Tate, P.A. is currently reviewing our cases and scheduling qualifying families for adoption finalization by year end. Our office does this every year to assist eligible families obtain the adoption tax credit, which is claimed…
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Jeanne T. Tate, P.A.is very proud to announce that Erica Tate Healey has been accepted into membership in the prestigious Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. The Academy is an organization of nearly 500 highly vetted attorneys across the world dedicated to the competent and ethical practice of adoption and…
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If you are considering adopting a child whose legal parent(s) pre-deceased the adoption, it is imperative that you apply for social security survivor’s benefits before effectuating the adoption. Finalizing the adoption without these in place is a death knell for survivor’s benefits; however, establishing the benefits because of the death of a…
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-strengthening-child-welfare-system-americas-children/
We are proud that our founder, Jeanne Trudeau Tate, has been recognized as one of the top 50 Women Attorney in Florida by Super Lawyers.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44745
“The bill allows certain military veterans and service members who adopt a child through the state’s child welfare system to receive a monetary benefit of $10,000 per child if the child has special needs, or $5,000 per child if the child does not, through the State Employee Adoption Benefit Program.…
