Adoption and Surrogacy

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Locke, Partin, DeBoer & Quinn is home to the Adoption and Surrogacy Law Center - A Practice Devoted to Building Families.

 

 

In today’s world, family building is occurring not just through adoption, but through assisted reproductive technologies including the use of egg and sperm donors, donated embryos and gestational carriers or surrogate. Unfortunately the search processes, the legalities, and the costs of adoption and surrogacy can be somewhat confusing. At the Adoption and Surrogacy Law Center, Director Colleen M. Quinn is one of the foremost authorities on adoption and surrogacy law and handles the following services:

General advice and overview of adoption and surrogacy options and the search processes.

Full service adoption legal counsel for:

Adopting parent(s)
Birth parent(s)
Adoption agencies
Children and infants

Handling all types of adoption matters:

Parental (private or directed) placements
Agency (public and private) placements and finalizations
Domestication and re-adoptions of international adoptions
Step-parent adoptions
Relative adoptions
Contested matters
Adult adoptions

Full service surrogacy counsel:

Surrogacy and Gestational Carrier Agreements
Egg Donor Agreements
Sperm Donor Agreements
Pre-birth and Parentage Orders
Birth Certificate Amendment
Assisted Reproductive Technology Consultation
Review and drafting of Medical Provider Agreements

Experienced trial lawyer in contested adoption and surrogacy matters.

Expert witness services in adoption and surrogacy.