Recent Posts in the Adoption Category

• Prospective Adoptive Parents are Not Required to Enter into a Post-Adoption Contact Agreement as a Condition for Granting their Petition to Adopt
  Apr 12, 2024
  A few years ago, the Pennsylvania General Assembly amended the Pennsylvania Adoption Act to add a section regarding a “Voluntary Agreement for ...
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• PA Superior Court Rules Mother Cannot Have the Child's Godmother Adopt the Child Unless Mother Relinquishes her Parental Rights
  Feb 8, 2024
  Mother wanted her child to be adopted by the child’s Godmother. Mother was single. Godmother was married to her husband, the child’s Godfather, and ...
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• The PA Supreme Court All but Forecloses Adoption by A Parent's Unmarried Paramour
  Jul 25, 2023
  Under the Adoption Act, except in stepparent adoptions, the parental rights of both biological parents must be terminated as a condition precedent to ...
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• Two Successful Step-Parent Adoptions!
  May 30, 2023
  One of the most joyous and satisfying areas of the practice of law is adoption. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of representing my clients, a ...
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• Parent Now or Forever Lose Your Child
  Jun 2, 2021
  Article Written by Kelly M. Walsh, Esquire Under Pennsylvania law, it may be easier to terminate the parental rights of an absent parent in a ...
  Posted By Kelly M. Walsh, Esquire
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