Why You Should Attend
By attending PLI's sixth annual Adoption Law Institute, you will learn from a distinguished and experienced faculty from throughout the United States about the latest developments in the fast-changing field of adoption law, and the implications of these developments for your practice. The faculty and the course handbook materials will provide practice tips and practical solutions to a broad range of issues that legal, medical, and social work professionals commonly confront in adoption cases.


What You Will Learn

• Representing birth parents in termination of parental rights and voluntary relinquishments/ surrenders: state and national practice and issues
• Adoption from the "Consumers" Perspective by adoptive parents
• Adoption of adolescents from foster care
• Ethical issues in adoption: the costs of both domestic and international adoptions, a panel discussion of standards for international adoptions.
• Financial support for adoption: the Family Medical Leave Act, adoption tax credits, social security, and health care coverage

PLEASE NOTE:
PLI is also offering a Live Webcast of the Program. This means that you can view this program from your office or even at home on your computer. We can also set up a Group Cast which would enable a number of attorneys from your office to view the program at once.

Full and partial scholarships to attend PLI's programs or view a webcast are available to legal aid and government attorneys, law professors, judges, judicial clerks, law students and employees of nonprofit organizations. Scholarship applications must be submitted at least four weeks prior to the program you wish to attend.

Please contact Leonard McKenzie at 212-824-5826 for additional information