STATE-BY-STATE LIST OF ADOPTION LAWYERS AND AGENCIES

Bryant A. Whitmire, Jr., Attorney

215 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd., #501    Birmingham, AL 35203     Phone: (205) 324-6631

Provides complete legal services for all adoptions: private, related, contested and interstate. Will represent natural parents, adopting couples, or agencies. Over 25 years experience.

dwhitm8871@aol.com

Rita A. Meiser, Attorney
7012 North 18th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85020     Phone: (602) 650-2473

Past President of AAAA. Providing a full range of legal services to adoptive parents, birth parents and adoption agencies. Emphasis on interstate adoptions. Recipient of the CCAI Angel in Adoption Award. 28 years experience.

www.meiserlaw.com                                      rmeiser@meiserlaw.com

Kathryn A. Pidgeon, Attorney
2575 East Camelback Road, Suite 450   Phoenix, AZ 85016    Phone: (602) 522-8700

We represent birth mothers in their adoption search as well as adoptive parents in finalizing their adoption. We  handle adoptions of foster children and grandparent, step-parent and relative adoptions.

website                                                 skp3@aol.com

Randall B. Hicks, Adoption Attorney
7177 Brockton Avenue #218     Riverside, CA 92506
Phone: (951-787-8300) (toll free for birthmothers: 800-756-6757)

Randy assists adoptive and birth parents from around the country in planning loving, ethical adoptions. He is the author of ADOPTING IN AMERICA. Free services to birth parents.

www.randallhicks.com                                              randy@randallhicks.com

Black Adoption Placement Center
125 Second Street     Oakland, CA 94607     Phone: (510) 839-3679

Black Adoption Placement and Research was founded in 1983 as a non-profit home-finding agency. We are licensed to serve families in 14 Northern California counties.

www.baprc.org                                                     family@baprc.org

Nightlight Christian Adoptions
4430 E. Miraloma Avenue, Suite B     Anaheim Hills, CA 92807     Phone: (714) 693-5437

Licensed as an adoption agency in California, Colorado and South Carolina, offering international adoption programs from several countries, including Bulgaria, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Taiwan, Uganda and Ukraine. Hague Accredited. Also has an embryo adoption program.

www.nightlight.org

Rhonda Fishbein
2849 Paces Ferry Road #215     Atlanta, GA 30339     Phone: (770) 437-8582

Law practice devoted exclusively to adoption law. I handle agency, independent, stepparent, relative, adult, international, as well as embryo adoption. Member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and an adoptive parent.

www.rfishbeinadoption-law.com                                rlfishbein@bellsouth.net

Lori L. Klockau, Attorney
(Bray and Klockau, P.L.C.)
402 S. Linn Street     Iowa City, Iowa 52240     Phone: (319) 338-7968

I represent either adoptive parents, birth parents, or agencies in a variety of adoption situations including independent adoptions, step-parent adoptions and domestication of foreign adoption.

BrayKlockau@bkfamilylaw.com

Monica Farris Linkner, Attorney
6204 Celeste Road     West Bloomfield, MI     Phone: (734) 214-0200

Specializing in family building through direct placement, step-parent and relative adoptions. Sensitive, ethical and professional representation of adoptive & birth parents in Michigan & interstate.

www.linknerlaw.com                                        monica@linknerlaw.com

Forever Families Inc
42400 W. Grand River Avenue     Novi, MI     Phone: (248) 344-9606

Forever Families is a non-profit licensed adoption placement agency, committed to providing the highest standards in adoption opportunities, with continuous support, adoption preparation and interventions.

info@forever-families.org

Walling, Berg & Debele, P.A.
121 8th Street, Suite 1100     Minneapolis, MN 55402     Phone: 1-800-730-9101

Our attorneys represent individuals and couples in all areas of adoption and assisted reproduction. We pride ourselves in providing sound legal resolutions when creating families in both traditional and non-traditional ways.

www.wbdlaw.com                                                contact101@wbdlaw.com

Adoption Minnesota
111 Third Avenue South, Suite 385     Minneapolis, MN 55401     Phone: (612) 333-0489

Adoption Minnesota is a licensed adoption agency specializing in American infant adoptions. Full services provided for birth parents and adoptive parents including counseling, home studies and outreach. Out-of-state families welcome.

www.adoption-minnesota.com                                       info@adoptionmn.com 

Randall B. Hicks, Adoption Attorney
7177 Brockton Avenue #218     Riverside, CA 92506
Phone: (951-787-8300) (toll free for birthmothers: 800-756-6757)

Randy is a California attorney assisting birth mothers from around the country in planning loving, ethical adoptions. He is the author of ADOPTING IN AMERICA. Free services to birth parents.

www.randallhicks.com                                        randy@randallhicks.com

Deborah Steincolor, Attorney
80 Park Street     Montclair, NJ 07042     Phone: (743) 943-7500

My practice is solely devoted to adoption. I provide services to adopting families & birthparents guiding them through these life-changing experiences & the legal process with compassion.

dsteincolor@aol.com

Donald C. Cofsky, Esq.
Cofsky & Zeidman, LLC
209 Haddon Ave.     Haddonfield, NJ 08033     Phone: (856) 429-5005

Working with adoptive parents for 20 years in private, agency, international, domestic and step-parent adoptions. Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney.

www.209law.com                                            DCC@209law.com

Laurie B. Goldheim, Attorney
Offices in New York and New Jersey     Phone: (845) 624-2727

Representing adoptive parents and birth parents in domestic adoptions for more than 10 years. Also handles re-adoptions, step-parent adoptions, dometic partner and agency finalizations.

www.adoptionrights.com                                          lgoldheim@adoptionrights.com

Suzanne B. Nichols, Esq.
Offices in White Plains, NY and Union, NJ     Phone: (914) 697-4870

Careful attention given to assisting couples and individuals build or expand families through domestic and international adoption. Our clients located throughout the U.S. & abroad.

adoptpro@aol.com

Heritage Family Services
5110 S. Yale Avenue, Suite 525     Tulsa, OK 74135     Phone: (918) 491-6767

A non-profit, Christian adoption agency licensed in Oklahoma. We provide a full range of professional services to birth mothers and adoptive families throughout Oklahoma as well as through interstate adoptions.

www.heritagefamilyservices.com                                HeritageFS@aol.com

Deborah L. Lesko, Esquire
373 Vanadium Road     Pittsburgh, PA 15243     Phone: (412) 276-4200

Providing adoption legal services to adoptive and birthparents in PA for 20 years. Assisting in private, agency, interstate, international, step-parent and relative adoptions. Please visit our website.

d.lesko@adoptionattorneys.org

Adoption Services Associates
Linda Zuflacht, Attorney at Law
5370 Prue Road      San Antonio, TX 78240
Phone: (210) 699-6094 (24 hour help 1-800-648-1807)

ASA provides complete, caring adoption services for birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptive children throughout the country. ASA is licensed in TX, NY, NJ and approved in CT. Est. 1984.

www.adoptionservicesassociates.org                adopt@adoptionservicesassociates.org

Alternatives in Motion
A licensed, non-profit agency
2509 FM 1960 East, Suite B          Houston, TX 77073
Phone: (281) 821-6508 (or toll free 1-800-776-6508)

An innovative agency geared to the needs and concerns of young women faced with unplanned parenting. there is no fee for any confidential counseling services to maternity clients.

www.aimadoptions.org                                        alandry@aimadoptions.org

Methodist Mission Home
6487 Whitby Road       San Antonio, TX 78240
Phone: (210) 696-2410 (or toll free 1-800-842-5433)

MMH specializes in offering hope to adoptive families, birthmothers and adopted children through domestic, older child and international adoption. We have a maternity center on campus for mothers needing housing during adoption plan.

www.mmhome.org                                            elizabethm@mmhome.org

Rodney M. Poole, Attorney
Poole and Poole
4901 Dickens Road #108     Richmond, VA 23230      Phone: (804) 358-6669

Rodney provides a wide range of adoption legal services, including parental placement, agency, international, stepparent, close relative and adult adoptions, as well as legal services regarding surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology.

www.pooleandpoole.com                                   Rpooleadopt@aol.com

Albert G. Lirhus
Lirhus & Keckemet LLP
1200 5th Avenue, Suite 1550     Seattle, WA 98101     Phone: (206) 728-5858

Our firm provides a wide variety of adoption services, including independent adoptions, inter-state adoptions, agency finalizations, foreign re-adoption, and step-parent adoptions. There is no charge for the initial consultation.

www.lk-legal.com                                            Lirhus@lk-legal.com