LGBT Families
Law Office of Brian Esser PLLC
41 Flatbush Avenue
Home | Practice Areas | Adoptions
Domestic Agency Adoptions
Many families choose to work with a licensed adoption agency to pursue adoption. The agency qualifies adoptive parents, and provides education and support services to both adoptive and birth parents. The agency will then match birth parents with wait… Read More
Domestic Private Adoptions
Families in New York can pursue adoption by identifying birth parents on their own, without using an agency. The adoptive parents and birth parents locate each other, initiate communication, and come to the decision that they intend to make an adopti… Read More
Foster Care Adoptions
Adopting from the foster care system can be a wonderful way to build a family. State agencies have custody of children of all ages, and children are occasionally placed at birth. Adoptive parents apply for a foster care license, are screened, and rec… Read More
International Adoptions
The landscape of international adoption has been changing rapidly over the last several years. International adoptions are governed primarily by the laws and practices of the sending country – and those laws vary significantly country to country. Y… Read More
Step and Second Parent Adoptions
Second-parent Adoption A second-parent adoption permits an unmarried or married partner to adopt the child of his or her partner, without terminating the rights of the consenting parent. The need for a second-parent adoption can arise where only one… Read More
© 2023 Law Office of Brian Esser PLLC
Copyright © 2023 Law Office of Brian Esser PLLC