OUR MISSION

Our practice provides confidential legal services in a caring environment, assisting clients who seek to find a solution to situations involving adoption and/or surrogacy, and helping all clients to obtain a legal status which is in the best interest of all involved.

ENCOMPASSING

Berry Law, P.A. practices the pricipal of comprehensive representation for all parties: birth parents, adoptive families, with the additional involvment of second parent, step-parent, relative, agency and any other identified adoption partners.

Who we include is based on client input.

INCLUSIVE

Berry Law, P.A. assists all parties including married parents, same-sex couples and single individuals. This includes the intended parent(s), traditional surrogates, and gestational carriers with resolving adoption and/or child placement issues.

AVAILABLE REPRODUCTIVE & ADOPTION
LEGAL SERVICES

Reproductive

  • Reviewing and drafting of contracts,
  • Donor legal issues,
  • Surrogate representation,
  • Gestational carriers or intended parents,
  • The establishment of the desired legal status of parental rights, and
  • Second parent adoptions.

Other

  • Initiate adoptions for foreign born child,
  • Maine and/or New Hampshire recognition of an International adoption,
  • Handling of Indian Child Welfare Act cases, and
  • Interstate Compact for Placement of Children.

General

  • Drafting contracts,
  • Pre and post birth orders, and
  • Arranging for correct birth certificates