Adoption

Kansas City Adoption Attorneys

Krigel & Krigel, P.C., provides legal services for clients involved in all types of adoptions in Kansas and Missouri. Our lawyers handle private adoptions, agency adoptions (state agencies and private agencies), interstate adoptions, stepparent adoptions, contested adoptions, adult adoptions, and international adoptions. We also provide legal services to clients who are interested in pursuing assisted reproductive technologies to help their families grow.

Adoption

Adoption has an emotional side, a social work side, and a legal side. If you are adopting a child, our lawyers can advise you early in the process so you understand the legal side of adoption. We can also assist you with networking if you are trying to find a birth mom.

The legal process of adoption will depend on the state in which you are adopting a child. In Kansas and Missouri, the legal case isn't filed until after the child is born. Usually there will be a period of time when the adoptive parent has temporary custody of the child under supervision of the court. The adoption takes place at the end of this temporary custody period. As part of the adoption process, the biological parents' rights are either voluntarily or involuntarily terminated.

Our lawyers also represent birth parents who are seeking an adoption plan.

Assisted Reproductive Technology Law

Our lawyers provide services in assisted reproduction law, including gestational surrogacy, traditional surrogacy, egg donation, and donor insemination. Depending on your role in the process, our lawyers can advise you of your rights and responsibilities. We also draft and negotiate agreements. If the process is successful and a child is born, our lawyers will guide you through the legal process to obtain formal recognition of the arrangement, including determination of parentage actions, adoptions, and stepparent adoptions.

Your attorneys at Krigel & Krigel, P.C.

Attorney Sanford Krigel has an active adoption practice and has been involved in many high-profile contested adoption cases in the Kansas City metropolitan area. He is one of the 2004 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's Angels in Adoption award recipients.

Karen Rosenberg is a frequent speaker and presenter on various legal topics for adoption and infertility support groups. She is co-author of "The Adoption Choice," an article that appeared in Missouri Medicine, a periodical for physicians and other medical professionals.

For more information, CONTACT the adoption and assisted reproduction lawyers at Krigel & Krigel, P.C., in Kansas City, Missouri.

Karen Rosenberg Rosenberg, Karen Schneider

Lisa Key Key, Lisa E.

The lawyers at Krigel & Krigel, P.C., serve clients in Kansas and Missouri, including Kansas City, Overland Park, Lenexa, Olathe, Leawood, Lees Summit, Independence, Shawnee, Gladstone Mission, Grandview, Raytown, Blue Springs, Jackson County, Clay County, Platte County, Cass County, Johnson County, Wyandotte County, Leavenworth County, and Miami County.