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Adoption and Kinship Guardianship Attorneys with 36 years of experience.
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Greenberg Adoption
Committed Adoption Services You Can Trust
New York City Adoption Attorneys
In 1993, Greenberg Adoption was established to help individuals and couples adopt children into loving families. Since then, we have helped more than 5,000 New York families who have opened their hearts and homes to children who have needed a loving forever home.
* Guiding Thousands of NYC Families Through the Adoption Process
Our founding attorney Clifford Greenberg is committed to helping clients adopt and obtain kinship guardianship for the children they love. In fact, he has devoted his entire legal career to working with children and families. After law school, he worked for the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan and helped place foster children into loving, permanent homes. He fought battles when necessary against the likes of Judge Judy herself. He also has extensive experience providing counsel to numerous agencies and foster and adoptive parents. Mr. Greenberg's passion to guide families through the adoption and kingap process remains the backbone of our law firm.
* Are you thinking about expanding your family through adoption?
Our New York City adoption lawyers are committed to working with prospective foster and adoptive parents la New York City and beyond. Contact our NYC law firm for a complimentary consultation and learn how we can help you navigate through this exciting journey. In fact, no foster parent ever has to pay a fee for our services. Our legal fee is paid by the City of New York.
* Providing a Wide Range of Adoption Services to help Clients Form Families
The adoption process can be overwhelming no matter what circumstances you are facing.
Our adoption attorneys have an intricate understanding of the legal parameters involved. We want to make this time as joyful as possible for you by eliminating any unnecessary roadblocks. We are committed to helping you focus on the expansion of your family instead of worrying about the details involved. Our legal team offers a variety of adoption and kinship services to guide you through this exciting time, including:
Foster Care Adoption and Kinship Guardianship
Same-Sex Adoption
Step-Parent Adoption
Adult Adoption
Private Agency Adoption
What Can You Expect from Our NYC Adoption Law Firm:
We are knowledgeable on all adoption aspects: Adoptions can be highly complicated with legal and personal ramifications. Adoption attorney Cliff Greenberg has worked tirelessly making sure that foster children are placed in loving, permanent homes. Because of his intricate understanding of complex adoption issues, he is regularly asked to lecture at foster care agencies, private agencies, LGBT centers and adoption conferences.
* We Are Passionate About Helping Families Form Through Adoption:
At Greenberg Adoption, we believe that race, gender, sexual orientation or any other factor should not limit loving couples or individuals from adopting. We have extensive experience working with same-sex couples and Mr. Greenberg penned two children's books celebrating the loving relationship between same-sex couples in Living the Dream With Mommy and Mama, and the journey of a same-sex couple's desire to see marriage equality for all people in Freedom for Us All. Both books were illustrated by Cliff's daughter Jojo, when she was 11 years old.
* Contact Our NYC Adoption Lawyer for a Free Consultation
Greenberg Adoption offers free telephone, email or in-person consultations for all adoption and kinship cases. To schedule a meeting or learn more about our services, call 212-822-1444 or 917-362-1132.
* Awards and Honors
Cliff has consistently been recognized for his dedication to adoption and kinship guardianship, and has received Certificates of Appreciation from foster care agencies and the Families Forever Adoption Group, Recognition Award from the Forestdale, Inc. and the Adoptive Parent Association and the 2011 Angels in Adoption Award from the United States Congress in a special ceremony honoring attorneys who have made a difference in the lives of foster and adoptive children.
* Writing & Children's Books to Celebrate the Joy of Adoptions.
Family law attorney Clifford Greenberg is also a published children's book author, who has written the following books in order to celebrate the love and importance of adoption and kinship guardianship.
Adoption
Adoption is the noblest of goals shared by individuals, spouses and domestic partners seeking to expand their families and give children a happy, loving home.
At the esteemed law firm of Clifford L. Greenberg, we work hard to make your objectives a reality. Our dedication to protecting your rights and attentive personal service has produced thousands of positive results for a diverse clientele of adoptive and foster parents.
Partner Cliff Greenberg is one of the premier adoption lawyers in New York State.
The benefits of our full-service adoption expertise are well within your grasp, beginning with your free initial consultation. To arrange this important first discussion, please call 212-822-1444 or email us at cliffg1013@gmail.com.
* Foster Care & Kinship Guardianship
We know that bonds can quickly develop between children and their foster families. Often, families want to cement this relationship with a legal adoption. Many details must be covered before a permanent relationship is established.
Are you hoping to adopt your foster child? We represent hundreds of clients each year in similar situations. You can feel confident knowing that we have the experience and expertise to make this exciting journey as smooth as possible. And... it is free to the families we represent, so call us now and let me help you make legal what you already know in your heart.... That you are now and will always be a family.
Cliff will use his energy and decades of experience to help you pursue your adoption and kinship guardianship goals. To schedule a complimentary consultation, please call 212-822-1444 or email us at cliffg1013@gmail.com Cliff is fluent in Spanish and represent dozens of Spanish-speaking families each year.
Step-Parent Adoption
When a biological parent remarries, the family may want the new spouse to adopt the child. The other biological parent can consent – but if he or she does not, legal measures must be taken to terminate parental rights, thereby making the child a candidate for adoption.
We represent parents on both uncontested and contested matters.
If your stepchild's biological parent is no longer alive, you can become his or her legal parent throught a fairly straightforward legal process.
If the biological parent is alive, he or she would have to surrender parentla rights, including custody and visitation rights. The biological parent would then be released from his or her responsibility of paying child support. We will prepare all of the necessary paperwork.
If the child is 14 years or older, he or she needs to consent to the adoption.
These are the cornerstones of New York stepparent adoption law. The law firm you choose when pursuing this adoption should know the law like the backs of their hands – and we do.
At the skilled adoption law firm of Clifford L. Greenberg, we have extensive experience handling stepparent adoptions throughout New York City and beyond. We welcome the opportunity to meet you, listen to your wishes and goals, and offer recommendations that can translate to effective courses of action.
* Are You Pursuing a Stepparent Adoption in New York? Our Law Firm Can Help.
To meet with our high-quality adoption lawyer Cliff Greenberg in a useful, free and confidential initial consultation, please call our law offices at 212-822-1444 or email us at
cliffg1013@gmail.com
Adult Adoption
Most adoption cases involve children under the age of 18. However, there is no legal limit on the age at which someone can be adopted in New York. There are a number of reasons why an individual or couple may wish to pursue legal adoption of an adult adoptee.
Since 1993, Cliff Greenberg has handled a wide range of adoptions throughout New York. We have seen the laws in New York change to reflect non-traditional relationships in individuals' best interests. Our founding attorney Cliff Greenberg is a passionate advocate committed to helping families navigate through the legal system, even if the adoption seems untraditional.
Every family dynamic is unique. In some cases, adults with physical or mental limitations may benefit from an adoption. In other words, adults simply wish to be adopted by loving parents, who did not adopt them when they were children. If you are looking to adopt an adult in your family, contact our New York City adult adoption attorneys. We offer free initial consultations so it is no risk in finding out about the legal options available to your family.
We are experienced at helping clients explore the options available to protect their loved one's best interests. We have experience helping clients with all types of adult adoptions including the following:
• Mental or physical incapacity: When an adult has become mentally or physically incapacitated, his or her caretaker may wish to consider pursuing an adoption. This would reflect a more intimate relationship than the alternative option of legal guardianship.
• Foster child adoption: When a child has been brought into a family through foster care but has not been formally adopted before his or her 18th birthday, his or her foster parents may wish to formalize the relationship through an adoption.
• Recognition of a close relationship: Families come in all shapes. It is not uncommon for unrelated adults to form parent-child bonds. In some cases, it is beneficial for people who have formed these bond to go through the formal adoption process.
We have handled more than 5,000 adoptions and have seen a wide range of circumstances. We know no two families are the same. No matter what your circumstances are, you can feel confident knowing we will guide you through the legal system in pursuit of your loved one's best interest.
Same-Sex Adoption
Amid the delicate frontier of marriage equality and solid confirmation of LGBTQ rights by the courts, same-sex couples deserve the same opportunities to expand families via adoption.
At the top-tier New York adoption law firm of CLG, our attorneys' extensive knowledge of evolving statutes during our decades of combined experience can benefit same-sex couples in all five boroughs, Westchester County, on Long Island and statewide.
Clifford L. Greenberg, Esq., is the skilled, compassionate lawyer who leads the firm's adoption practice. Throughout your tour of the legal process, Mr. Greenberg will familiarize you, your co-parent and nontraditional family with how same-sex adoption procedures proactively address decision-making, custody, visitation and a child's right to financial support, including inheritances.
All of this information and guidance, all answers to your questions along the way, emphasize your right to pursue adoption as well as "the best interests of the child."
Adoption Legal leadership Dedicated To You And Your Family In New York City And Statewide
To ensure that your rights are protected while investigating foster care, adult, stepparent or same-sex — to guarantee security for your child's future — the support of insightful, understanding adoption lawyers is essential. This is the kind of full-service attention we give to every client.
To learn more about the many ways we can assist you, and to confidentially state your wishes in an initial consultation, contact our office today. Call us at 212-822-1444 or stay at our website to reach us by email message.
Private Adoption
Many families choose to work with a licensed adoption agency. The agency provides support, counseling and coaching while working to match you with a birth parent.
At the premier New York adoption law firm of Clifford L.Greenberg, the agencies we work with are caring and compassionate, and have committed social workers who are very helpful. If there are any issues as you deal with the agency's social workers, remember that the agency has its own attorney — and we, as your attorneys, will always be there for you.
Agency adoptions are recommended for prospective adoptive parents who want to let go of the reins and let legitimate adoption professionals do most of the work. Each agency has its own rules and requirements for prospective adoptive parents. If you wish to adopt a newborn, it may require a long period of time. But every case is different.
Most agencies practice open adoption, a factor you will need to consider as the process takes place. Openness is a personal decision regarding the degree of contact you may allow the birth parents to have after an adoption, if at all. It is an important path that the agency and our office can help you navigate.
Once a child has been placed with you, our lawyers prepare all documents for submission to the court, thus ensuring a very happy experience during your journey through the legal system.
When you have decided to grow your family through adoption of any kind, come to the law firm that has handled thousands of adoptions statewide and nationally. Come to the Law Offices of Clifford L.Greenberg.
* Quality Adoption Process Services Dedicated To You And Your Family In New York State
Are you and your spouse or partner considering pursuing a private adoption? Attorney Clifford L. Greenberg, Esq., possesses a command of state adoption law can benefit your goals. To schedule an initial consultation with Mr. Greenberg at our law offices, please call 212-822-1444 or email us at cliffg1013@gmail.com
The Law Office of Clifford L. Greenberg
185 West End Avenue #15c, New York, NY 10023, United States
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