Our Florida adoption attorneys can help you if you are seeking to enlarge your family or if you are seeking to ensure that your birth child has a safe and happy home. Adoption can be a complicated, lengthy, and frustrating process, particularly for first-time adoptive parents.
Because adoption is a large and important part of our family law practice, Chiumento Law, PLLC is an adoption agency as well as a law firm.
Our adoption attorneys are fully versed in Florida adoption law. Because we understand and can execute all the legal filings required of an adoption β instead of handing off work to an agency and waiting for them to act β we can shorten the time your adoption takes.
Our family law attorneys have the skill and experience to smoothly guide you through the adoption process. Our goal is to protect the interests of you and your family. That security β the knowledge that your family is whole as you desired and intended β is our pledge to you. Adoptions are finalized by the courts, but Florida law allows any adult to adopt a child or another adult.
Single adults or married couples may jointly adopt a child, and a married person may adopt individually without their spouse a stepchild adoption. Florida statutes also protect the rights of physically disabled persons to adopt. Florida courts focus on the best interests of the child in adoption cases. To that end, potential adoptive parents in Florida undergo an adoption home study, which includes background checks, interviews, home inspections, and more.
