This program has been developed to provide family law practitioners with specific detailed information regarding particular aspects of law which impact both adoption and child welfare cases. The information will assist attorneys in better representing their clients, especially where such cases intersect.

Program Contents

• International Adoptions

• Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children

• Home Study

• The Indian Child Welfare Act

• Post Adoption Contact Agreements/Open Adoptions

• Subsidies

• Arts/Surrogacy – Assisted Reproductive Technologies

• Ethics – Case Studies of Ethical Dilemmas Encountered in Adoption Cases

Program Faculty

Anne Reynolds Copps, Esq. (Program Chair)
Law Office of Anne Reynolds Copps
—Albany

Kate Kaufman Burns
Executive Director
Adoption Resources & Counseling Center, Inc
—Clifton Park

Kathleen "Casey" Copps DiPaola, Esq.
Law Office of Anne Reynolds Copps
—Albany

Michael S. Goldstein, Esq.
Law Office of Michael S. Goldstein
—Rye Brook

James J. Green, Esq.
Albany County Department of Children, Youth, and Families
—Albany

Brendan C. O’Shea, Esq.
Gleason Dunn Walsh & O'Shea
—Albany

Laurie Coreno Reynolds, Esq.
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
—Clifton Park

Nina Rumbold, Esq.
Rumbold and Seidelman
—Bronxville

John E. Stupp, Esq.
Assistant Deputy Council
New York State Office of Children & Family Servic
—Rensselaer

Total MCLE Credits 7.5
Ethics MCLE Credits 0.5