Navigating life as an adoptee can be confusing and difficult, especially when your feelings stay bottled up to protect the ones you love the most. As a black adoptee growing up with a white family, Kyle experienced a wide range of emotions that he kept locked inside. Kyle shares his…
Adopting for the first time can be like navigating uncharted waters if you don’t have the right guide. Often times, prospective adoptive parents don’t know the “right” questions to ask or how to properly prepare for what happens next after bringing their child home. Guest Paige Knipfer is the owner…
Trauma. Primal Wounds. Feelings. Adoptee Experiences. Curiosity about these factors led adoptee, Simon Benn, to explore the intricacies of being adopted in today’s Primal Wound society. In this episode of Moore to Love: An Adoption Podcast, Nicole and Simon dig deep and speak about Simon’s experience and perspective as a…
When Deirdre Klein Ochipinti went to the bookstore to explain adoption to her toddler, she ran into a big problem. There were no children’s books that explained adoption on the book shelves. After searching high and low, Deidre came up with a solution. She would write a book so that…
After one successful adoption with a credible Adoption Agency, Kate and her husband decided they wanted to adopt again. This time they decided on a different adoption agency in their state. Kate and her husband were matched quickly but various requests and exchanges started to feel a little too fishy.…
This legislation will make the current adoption tax credit fully refundable to help make adoption a supported option for more families! This legislation will make the current adoption tax credit fully refundable, removing income barriers to adoption for low and middle-income families, which represent the majority of families who adopt…
Florida Adoption Attorney Robert Webster prevailed in a very difficult trial involving a four-year-old boy who has been in the custody of his adoptive parents since birth. As in all cases, the stakes were high- especially since the adoptive parents had already adopted the child’s sibling. The court wrote a…
Congratulations to Nicole Moore for achieving an AV Preeminent® rating yet again for 2021, the highest possible peer rating standard!
Do some research and compile a list of adoption attorneys in your area and start making some phone calls. Remember, while it’s important to choose an adoption attorney as early in the process as possible, it’s equally as important that you not hire the first attorney you meet and instead…
Adoption Attorney Erica T. Healey, Esq. presented “Adoption Pitfalls” to the Tampa Bay Paralegal Association for their March CLE Meeting on March 18th, 2021.