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Jeanne T. Tate is a Board Certifed Adoption Attorney at Tate Healey Webster. For six years, Ms. Tate was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida College of Law where she taught Adoption Law and Procedure.  Ms. Tate has an extensive and exclusive practice in the area of adoptions, and has participated in the placement of over 4,000 children in loving homes.  As a member of the prestigious Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys and The Florida Adoption Council, Jeanne has been active in interstate compact adoptions and has a comprehensive knowledge of adoption law.  She works closely with adoption agencies to provide a full range of services to birth parents and adoptive families, and owns her own agency, Heart of Adoptions, Inc.  She also found a nonprofit adoption agency, Heart Of Adoptions Alliance, Inc. that works with foster care and special-needs children.

Nicole Ward Moore is a Board Certified Adoption Attorney, a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, a certified adoption coach, and a podcast host. She has practiced exclusively in the area of adoption law throughout the State of Florida and in conjunction with out-of-state placements since 2004. She is also a member of the prestigious Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), the Florida Adoption Council, the Orange County Bar Association, and the Florida Bar.. Nicole represents adoption agencies, adoptive parents, and birth parents. She handles domestic adoptions, interstate adoptions, relative adoptions, stepparent adoptions, adult adoptions, name changes and more. Nicole also offers adoption mediation services and adoption coaching for families that are new to adoption. Nicole has placed almost 1,000 children in forever homes. She often speaks publicly on the subject of adoption law and even taught adoption law at Barry Law School.. Nicole graduated with high honors from the University of Florida in 2001 with a B.S. degree in Journalism and Communications. Nicole then received her J.D. degree in 2004 from the University of Florida, College of Law, where she graduated with honors, and immediately began practicing adoption law.. When Nicole is not helping her clients build their own family, you can find her with son, Kingston, and Toy Goldendoodle, Bear.

Natalia Scott is co-owner and managing partner at Compass Law. Natalia was born in Poland and came to the US as a young child. After receiving her double bachelor degrees from the University of Central Florida Burnette Honors College, she went on to law school at the University of Florida. As a former prosecutor, Natalia has developed extensive litigation skills that she uses everyday to help find the best solutions for her clients.

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I graduated from UGA Law School in 2014, and just launched my own solo practice! I handle all sorts of family law cases including divorce, custody and/or child support modifications, contempt, legitimation, adoption, and name change. I work exclusively on a flat fee basis, no hourly charges on your invoices! I do also offer sliding scale, "low bono" as well as a few pro bono cases at a time. I strongly believe that access to an attorney should be a right to all, not a privilege reserved for the wealthy. And the legal practice has gotten prohibitively expensive in recent years. My hope is to be able to offer assistance to those who need it but can't afford the traditional law firm.. If you need assistance with a family law matter, or know someone who does, please reach out to me at I am more than happy to chat with you to see if I can help!

Vernadette Broyles is an experienced family law attorney specializing in child custody, legitimations, and guardianships/conservatorships, and representing children as a Guardian Ad Litem in divorces and custody matters.  Ms. Broyles is also an adoptive parent and adoption attorney specializing in all types of contested and uncontested, agency, international, and private adoptions.  She received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree from Yale University.  She was admitted to the practice law in Georgia in 1995 and was a former Prosecutor with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and a litigator with the Atlanta law firms of Shreeder, Wheeler, & Flint and with Hunton & Williams.  From 2003 to 2008, she served on the Board of the Georgia Department of Human Services where she chaired the DFCS committee.  Ms. Broyles practices throughout the Metro Atlanta counties.

Several of my clients have commented on how I have a tendency to tell them what they need to hear and not what they want to hear. I do this as something my parents impressed upon me. I believe that clients should hear the good, the bad, and the ugly to help eliminate some of the confusion in his/her/their case. Although this sounds a little cliché, clients get the point and appreciate it.. We are open Mon-Fri 8:30AM - 4:30 PM. Call are accepted from Sun-Fri 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM. Call after 4:30 PM will be responded to within 24-48 hours

Julia Spannaus represents clients in family law matters including adoption, child custody, visitation, DCS cases, conservatorship, special education, divorce and guardianship proceedings.  She is a certified Child Welfare Specialist since 2015 and represents clients across East Tennessee, including Blount, Knox and Loudon counties, Maryville, Alcoa, Knoxville, Lenoir City, Loudon, Farragut and surrounding areas.

Hi I'm Lindsay. I'm a wife and mother who was raised in Cookeville, TN. I've been practicing in my hometown and surrounding areas since 2009 at my family's law firm Cameron Goolsby & Gross.. I've handled many kinds of cases and met some amazing clients. I believe strongly in doing the right thing, communicating clearly and often, and walking my clients through their legal matter with respect. My main areas of practice are adoptions, conservatorships, criminal defense, child welfare, and real estate closings, but I also handle other matters as well.. I graduated from Nashville School of Law in 2009, and I also have a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Kentucky where I was also a gymnast. Being a NCAA Division 1 student-athlete was one of my most prized accomplishments as I competed with olympians and other very talented individuals. I also loved serving others through outreach programs and in 2004 and 2005 won awards for those efforts, both in the gym and in the community.. I now am proud to continue my family's legal legacy that began two generations before me. I feel a deep calling to adoptions as I believe strongly in the power of a loving home in a child's life. Love makes all the difference to a child and it is what drives me in my work. I care deeply about my clients and I would love to meet you too.

Adoption is all we do at HinzLaw, where I work with two of my three daughters.  One daughter, Kate Kahue, is also an adoption attorney.  The other daughter, Kelly Kidder, is our Foster Adoption Case Manager and very capable legal assistant. We work on a fixed-fee basis as much as possible so our clients can take full advantage of the personal service we provide without worrying about the cost.. We do a wide variety of adoption work - including newborn adoption, stepparent adoption, finalization of DCYF adoptions, international finalization and readoption, and adult adoption.  You can find more information about our practice on our Hinzlaw website.. Even if you do not work with us, please use an attorney with adoption expertise. You can find skilled, ethical adoption attorneys on the website of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.

Michael Glen Earl was raised in Moses Lake, Washington and loves the Columbia Basin. He is a third generation attorney and is fluent in Spanish. Professionally, Michael enjoys constructing estate plans, including wills and trusts, to his individual client's needs, as well as having the honor of assisting families with adoptions. Michael is a family man. He and his wife Allie have three wonderful children, Eleanor, Emilia and Ellis. Apart from spending time with his family, Michael enjoys traveling, playing golf, reading books, PC gaming, and amateur woodworking. Michael likes to be involved in his community. He is an Eagle Scout, and also teaches a Business Law class at the local community college. Personal relationships are important to Michael. He is committed to his clients long term interests and in retaining not only their business but also their friendship.

By choice, Melanie operates as a sole practitioner so that she has complete freedom to only take on clients whose needs match her expertise and passions. Melanie's practice is focused on Adoptions, Wills and Trusts.. Melanie has all the professional credentials you would expect of an attorney with 22 years of successful practice. What sets her apart is her cheerful, friendlyapproach, the personal relationship she develops with each client, and herown experience as an adoptive mother.

Melissa B. Brisman graduated Valedictorian from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. She is an attorney admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas, and is a licensed certified public accountant.. Melissa first started helping couples become parents in 1996. She was her own first client, guiding and directing the process in which she and her husband, Dan, became parents of twin boys carried by a gestational carrier. A few years later, they had a daughter who was also carried by a gestational carrier.. Melissa’s excellent reputation is based on her compassion and empathy for each intended parent. Her expansive knowledge and experience have allowed her to create a staff that is prepared to successfully help parents build their family. Melissa is considered a true pioneer in this field who advocates for changes in the law in this area and lectures to physicians, potential parents, universities, and lawyers around the world.. Melissa is the first attorney to obtain court orders directing that the genetic parents be placed on the original birth certificates of their children born to gestational carriers in the State of Maine, in 1997, and the State of New Jersey, in 2000. She also argued and won landmark gestational carrier cases before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 2001 and the State Supreme Court of New York in 2004, setting legal precedents for birth orders in these states. In 2003, Melissa was the first attorney to obtain a court order placing two women on the birth certificate of their child, without an adoption, in the State of New Jersey; and, in 2005, to place two men on the birth certificate of their children, born through a gestational carrier, without an adoption, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2008, she was also able to have two women who were validly married in Canada placed on the birth certificate of their child in the State of New York. Since 2012, Melissa joined government officials and other attorneys in lobbying for legislation in New Jersey to promote and regulate compensated surrogacy. In May 2018 these efforts were realized when NJ Governor Phil Murphy signed the New Jersey Gestational Carrier Act.. Melissa has been a keynote speaker at numerous events and organizational activities and for prestigious institutions across the country, including the New Jersey Society for Reproductive Nursing Specialists, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Cornell Hospital, and the Donor Egg Conference held each year in Charleston, South Carolina. Melissa has also served as a faculty member for the 2010 International Nursing Conference on Reproductive Health & Infertility. Melissa is a Notable Contributor for GayParentstoBe and has served on the Boards of the American Fertility Association (AFA)/ Path2Parenthood, Fertile Dreams, and Conceive Magazine and has also been the legal advisor and a Board Member of Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED) and the LIVESTRONG Fertility Advisory Committee. Melissa is a professional member of Resolve, Path2Parenthood, the American Bar Association-Family Law Section-Reproductive and Genetic Technology Committee (ABA), the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAARTA).. Melissa was the recipient of the 2017 Advocacy Award from P2P (Path to Parenthood), the 2015 Infertility Hero Award and the 2004 Star of Resolve Award. She is a chapter author of Reproductive Medicine Secrets by Zev Rosenwaks, Fertility Preservation in Male Cancer Patients by John P. Mulhall, and Principles of Oocyte and Embryo Donation by Mark V. Sauer. In 2006, Melissa B. Brisman’s law firm, Melissa B. Brisman, Esq., LLC was named as a finalist for the prestigious 2006 Forbes Enterprise Award. Melissa is also the author of numerous articles on the subjects of gestational carriers and reproductive law.. In 2010 Melissa was invited to Taiwan to assist the government in drafting surrogacy legislation.. Melissa’s law firm drafts and negotiates contracts for many types of reproductive arrangements including gestational carrier contracts, ovum, sperm, and embryo donation contracts and adoptions; works with international couples; finalizes same sex and step parent adoptions; obtains court orders for gestational carrier arrangements to allow the intended parents to go directly on the birth certificate of their child at birth; and reviews insurance books on behalf of intended parents and their gestational carriers.

Case Legal Counsel provides legal services with a focus on families, to include adoptions, guardianships, prenuptial agreements, family law, and estate planning.