Firm: All Family Legal | Law Office of Amira Hasenbush
1015 Grandview Ave , Glendale , California 91201
Practice Areas: Adoption
Amira has been called "a lawyer with heart." In addition to being thorough, efficient, and detail oriented, she cares about every one of her clients and making sure that they are getting what they need when they walk out of her door. Amira graduated second in her class from UCLA School of Law and also has a Masters in Public Health. She has chosen family representing all ends of the LGBT spectrum, giving her a deeper understanding of the special needs that may be involved for LGBT families. Her practice focuses on family formation - surrogacy, adoption, sperm/egg donation, and complex parentage litigation.. Prior to taking her solo practice full-time, Amira spent five and a half years as the Jim Kepner Law and Policy Fellow for the Williams Institute, where she did research and published reports on LGBT law and policy, including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, family law issues for transgender parents and children, and the legal needs of people living with HIV.
Firm: Law Office of Ann Thomson
One City Boulevard West 1260 , Orange , California 92868
Practice Areas: Adoption
Firm: TruAdopt Law / AdoptMatch / AdoptConnect
140 S Lake Ave , Pasadena , California 91101
Practice Areas: Adoption
Firm: Law Office of Elizabeth Manassau
PO Box 720321 586 N First Street 211 , San Jose , California 95112
Practice Areas: Adoption
1010 Grayson St #2 , Berkeley , California 94710
Practice Areas: Adoption
I have been serving the LGBT community in the Bay Area for over 17 years, helping families protect their rights through adoptions, domestic partnership consultations, and formation and dissolution of legal relationships.
Firm: Law Offices of George Maricic
9327 Fairway View Place, Suite 204 , Rancho Cucamonga , California 91729
Practice Areas: Adoption
Firm: The Moreno Family Law Firm
1800 Hamilton Ave 100 , San Jose , California 95125
Practice Areas: Adoption
5410 E Beverly Blvd , Los Angeles , California 90022
Practice Areas: Adoption
While helping my clients go through the process of adoption in the most expeditious and painless manner possible is very important to me, so, too, is living a healthy, balanced life. I work hard and play hard. I enjoy hiking, stand-up paddle boarding, kayaking and biking. I love to travel and have been blessed with the opportunity to see various parts of the world. I like to listen to and make music, too, by playing the ukulele and guitar. It is so much fun to get together with friends, play and sing while enjoying good home-cooked food. Life doesn't get much better than that.
Firm: Integrity Adoption Law
65 Enterprise Drive , Aliso Viejo , California 92656
Practice Areas: Adoption
Being adopted myself, I am passionate about adoption and family formation. I am continually grateful for the honor to work with families and children and to use the law to support and advocate for them.. I love living out my dream of practicing law and uniting and supporting families through adoption and children’s law. My mother explained to me at a very early age that I was adopted and what a beautiful gift that was. She explained that my birth mother had made the ultimate, loving, and sacrificial gift for me by choosing to give me life and family. And in doing so, she also gave my mom, dad and brother a cherished gift by giving them a daughter and a sister. I grew up feeling loved by my adoptive parents and loved by the birth family that so lovingly sacrificed for me. I love working with birth mothers and adoptive parents who all have the best interest of the child in mind.
Firm: Los Angeles County office:
15260 Ventura Blvd , Sherman Oaks , California 91403
Practice Areas: Adoption
Randall Hicks limits his practice to stepparent adoption and adult adoption. He has dedicated his law practice to adoptions for 37 years. He has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and is rated "preeminent" by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible rating (achieved by only 10% of all attorneys in the US).. Virtually all other attorneys doing stepparent and adult adoptions are family law practitioners, meaning 99% of their practice is likely divorce and child custody. Because Randy does nothing but adoptions, he believes he can do them better, faster, and less expensively. Most importantly, his approach is very personal as he understands the importance of the creation of a family and had dedicated his professional life to that one goal.. His Stepparent Adoption Center features a flat legal fee of only $2,250 for adult adoptions (adopting a person or stepchild age 18 and over) which includes all legal documents and the final court hearing, even the court filing fee and his office costs. Stepparent adoptions of a minor child (under age 18) are a flat legal fee of $2,500. This includes not only the usual work associated with the adoption (preparing all the needed legal documents, preparing the absent parent's consent and requesting their consent and the final adoption hearing. Extra legal fees can occur in a stepparent adoption (of a minor child) if the absent parent can't be found or won't consent as extra legal proceedings would be required. Randy also completes the paperwork to generate an amended birth certificate for the adoptee, naming the adopting parent or stepparent as one of the birth parents, and changing the child's name as desired. Amended birth certificates can also be created in adult adoptions.. Thanks to a change in the California Family Code in 2017, most attorneys don't know that stepparent investigations can now be done by a private adoption agency, not just the county entity. This means that the typical time to complete can be reduced to about 3-4 months, rather than 12 - 15 months when done by the county. (Adult adoptions do not require any home study or investigation so are usually faster.). Randy is the author of several leading adoption books, most recently STEP PARENTING: 50 One-Minute DOs & DON'Ts for Stepdads & Stepmoms and ADOPTING IN AMERICA: How To Adopt Within One Year (for adoptive parents planning a traditional adoption, revised edition 2018). Randy's books, and their focus on ethical and affordable adoption, have been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and on television programs like CBS This Morning, The Home Show, Mike & Maty, Leeza Gibbons, and Sally Jessy Raphael. Randy was also the host of the 1991 PBS educational series, Adoption Forum.. For information about stepparent adoption, please visit . For adult adoption, please visit . He has offices in Riverside, San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles Counties. His initial consultation is free and typically takes about 30 minutes to fully explain the stepparent or adult adoption process to you. He does his consultations by video (Zoom), so you don't need to take time off work to travel to his office.
Firm: Familybuilding, Aplc
155 N Riverview Dr Ste 204 , Anaheim , California 92808
Practice Areas: Adoption
Firm: Law Offices of Sheri E. Cohen
2658 Griffith Park Blvd. #338 , Los Angeles , California 90039
Practice Areas: Adoption
