Adoption Tax Credit Made Permanent as of January 2013 Information supplied by Donald C, Cofsky, Esquire On January 1, 2013, Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (H.R. 8), and it was signed into law by President Obama on January 2, 2013. The Adoption Tax Credit was one of the provisions of the […]

New Jersey was the first state in the union to adopt a policy stating that couples seeking to adopt children may not be discriminated against due to sexual orientation or marital status. It is one of the easier states in the union for same-sex couples to adopt children in. The standard, appropriately, for adopting a […]

On May 27, 2014 New Jersey became one of approximately 10 states to allow adoptees access to their original birth certificates. Bills had been proposed for well over 15 years in New Jersey, each failing to pass, but recently the Legislature approved one. The Governor conditionally vetoed it in order to provide additional protections for […]

In today’s fast-moving culture, it’s challenging enough just to raise a biological child or an adopted child who hasn’t been abused. Adopting a child who has been abused requires parents to have extra stores of emotional intelligence and availability — and a large and strong support network, as well as significant amounts of resilience and […]

Blended families are increasingly common in second marriages. In fact, some 65 percent of second marriages include children from a prior marriage. While you cannot simply fill in the blank on a form to adopt your stepchild with the assistance of an experienced adoption attorney, adopting a stepchild is easier than you think, and the […]