Adoption Lawyers in ZIP Code 12207 - Albany

Location: 12207, Albany, New York
Phone: Not Available
Firm: David N Goldin Esq

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 12207, Albany, New York
Phone: Not Available
Firm: Copps DiPaola, PLLC

Casey began her legal career as an associate attorney at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, Albany's largest law firm, where she practiced primarily in the areas of Labor and Employment, Education and Litigation.  In 2012, Casey decided to join her mother, Anne Reynolds Copps, in practice.  In 2014, Anne and Casey became partners and created Copps DiPaola, PLLC, the first mother-daughter law firm in the Capital Region.. Casey graduated summa cum laude and as the salutatorian from Albany Law School in 2009. During law school she was a senior editor of the Albany Law Review, the secretary of the Pro Bono Society, and a constitutional law research assistant.  Casey also completed internships with the Family Violence Litigation Clinic and the Warren County District Attorney's Office, and judicial placements in Albany County Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division, Third Department. Prior to law school, Casey graduated from Shenendehowa High School and from the Rochester Institute of Technology, with highest honors and as a member of the Honors Program. Casey currently lives in Clifton Park with her husband Jeffrey, a high school special education teacher, and their sons Evan and Corey.. Casey understands that many of her clients come to her during difficult and stressful times in their lives.  She strives to educate her clients on the law and their options so they can make educated decisions about the trajectory of their cases.  Casey understands that, while the matter that bring her clients to her are incredibly important to them, the vast majority of her clients have limited funds to spend on legal representation.  With that in mind, Casey openly discusses with her clients the relative costs of various options and helps them to engage in a cost-benefit analysis.. Casey prides herself on being a creative problem solver and refuses to take a one size fits all approach to her cases.  She spends time with her clients getting to know the facts of their cases intimately so she can help them brainstorm possible solutions to the problem that brought them to her.  Particularly in matters involving families, Casey believes that working together to come up with a solution that addresses the needs and concerns of all involved to the best extent possible is almost always preferable to litigation, which can do irreparable damage to relationships.  That being said, Casey has extensive litigation experience and, in the event that settlement is not an option, she is willing and able to zealously litigate on behalf of her clients.. Casey focuses her practice in all areas of adoption law.  She has experience representing birth and adoptive parents in private adoptions, voluntary agency adoptions, foster care adoptions and step/second parent adoptions.  Casey also has experience representing adoption agencies and handling adoption subsidy fair hearings.  Casey also practices in the related area of assisted reproductive technology law (egg/sperm/embryo donation and surrogacy/gestational carrier agreements) and kinship guardianship (KinGAP).  Casey also practices matrimonial law and handles all types of family court matters and she also acts a neutral mediator in matrimonial/custody matters.  Casey also handles estate planning/trusts, probate/estate administration, guardianship (Article 81, 17 and 17A), residential real estate, not-for-profit/for profit/religious corporation formation and operations, name changes (including transgender name changes), education law, employment law and minor traffic matters.

Location: 12207, Albany, New York
Phone: Not Available
Firm: Copps Dipaola, PLLC

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 06901, Stamford, Connecticut
Phone: 203.425.2474 (Busine
Firm: Tyler Cooper and Alcorn

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 07645, Montvale, New Jersey
Phone: Not Available
Firm: Melissa B. Brisman, Esq. LLC

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.

Location: 10573, Rye Brook, New York
Phone: (914) 939-1111
Firm: Michael S. Goldstein

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 10580, Rye, New York
Phone: (914) 967-7763
Firm: J. Grantmyre Iacobellis

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 10598, Yorktown Heights, New York
Phone: (914) 962-5900
Firm: Horowitz & Associates

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 10604, White Plains, New York
Phone: (914) 697-4870
Firm: Rosenstock, Lowe & Nichols

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 10956, New City, New York
Phone: (845) 634-4505
Firm: Law Offices of Debra S. Bereck, PC

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 10956, New City, New York
Phone: Not Available
Firm: Masch, Coffey & Associates LLP

Location: 10956, New City, New York
Phone: Not Available
Firm: Nancy B. Morris

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 10956, New City, New York
Phone: Not Available
Firm: Jaclyn M. Miller, Immigration Attorney

Experienced Adoption attorney serving clients in 12207 and surrounding areas.

Location: 12054, Delmar, New York
Phone: Not Available
Firm: Vella, Carbone & Associates LLP