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ADOPTIONS FOR COUPLES AND SINGLE PARENTS "You've been a wonderful, supportive person through the past 18 months. Thank you for helping us realize our dream of parenthood!" --Adoptive Parents Adoption is a complex legal and emotional process. We offer sensitive counsel to adoptive couples and single parents in all aspects of the adoption process. We offer Assistance to adoptive parents without regard to sexual orientation In private and agency adoptions our assistance includes: Selection of the appropriate options for locating a child Selection of the social worker to prepare the home study Preparing the petitions and other legal documents for precertification as qualified adoptive parents Assistance in drafting and placing advertisements, and information concerning the location of advertising resources Assistance in adoptions for parents over age forty Once a birth mother has been located, monitoring the progress of the adoption to ensure that the process works smoothly and unanticipated problems are avoided Interstate Compact assistance and filings Finalizing the adoption after placement For international adoptions our assistance includes: Selection of the appropriate options for locating a child Determining the appropriate preparer of the home study Preparing the petitions and other legal documents for precertification as qualified adoptive parents Preparing the petitions and other documents for submission to the Immigration and Naturalization Service Once a child has been identified, monitoring the progress of the adoption to ensure that the process works smoothly and unanticipated problems are avoided Coordination of paperwork between the adoptive parents and child's country of birth (this step may be handled by the adoption agency, if one is involved) Finalizing the adoption after placement Return to Gregory A. Franklin's Home Page Understanding domestic and international adoption procedures Services provided to birth parents and request for additional information Gregory A. Franklin Attorney at Law Ashcraft, Franklin, & Young LLP 95 Allens Creek Road Building One, Suite 202 Rochester, New York 14618 (585) 442-0540 e-mail: gfranklin@adoptionattorneys.org