Description: Adoption Lawyers - Legal Service Attorneys for California, Open, Independent, Interstate, Contested, Adult, and Stepparent Adoptions and Guardianships for decades.
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It has been our privilege for over 35 years to represent adopting families, birth mothers, and adopted children. Our practice is limited to adoption law and guardianships. That is ALL that we do, it is not a sideline. We have represented adopting families from throughout the United States, and several foreign nations. We have handled adoption cases at all levels up to and including the California Supreme Court, and have been successful in helping to make California adoption law more child-friendly.
Doug Donnelly, is an adopting father, author, and lecturer, and is a past-President of the Academy of California Adoption Lawyers, and a charter member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. He has been recognized for 2021 as a Southern California "SuperLawyer"®, an honor reserved for lawyers considered to be the leaders of the profession. He has testified numerous times before committees of the California legislature, and has helped to write numerous legislative bills that have passed the legisla