New Attitudes Toward Foster Care More than 110,000 children in the U.S. foster care system are legally free for adoption, yet more than 20,000 of these kids will never find an adoptive family. After a childhood of hardship, youth exiting the system without family support face a high risk of unemployment, homelessness, incarceration and other…
Surrogacy Legal Protections As Surrogacy Surges, New Parents Seek Legal Protections When Brad Hoylman and his husband wanted to start a family, they looked to a woman nearly 3,000 miles away to carry their child. The two Manhattanites turned to a surrogate in California, a state with a robust commercial surrogacy industry, because the practice…
Adoption in New Jersey Adoption is a legal preceding that involves the termination of the birth parent’s legal rights over a child and the assumption of those rights by adoptive parents. If you are considering adoption, the law offices of Freeman Hughes Freeman, LLC can help. Adoptions are a complex legal matter that are subject…