adoption practice areas

Adoption Practice Areas

We want to be your advocate during the adoption process. Over more than 25 years of dedicated service, we have helped create more than a thousand families through all kinds of adoption. Infant adoption, foster parent, stepparent and relative adoption, adult adoption — whichever method your circumstances demand, we have the knowledge and experience to help.

More than simply adoption lawyers in Illinois, we are passionate defenders of adoption. Our advocacy has shaped state laws and our work has benefited families for decades. We would love to talk with you about how our work in adoption law could help your family.

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Infant Adoption

Infant Adoption

Adoption is life-changing. If you dream of becoming a parent, you should have the opportunity to see that dream become a reality. Whether you have chosen adoption out of necessity or a sense of calling, it can be a beautiful way to start or grow a family. For more than 25 years of work, we...

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Interstate Adoption

Interstate Adoption

There are several different ways to adopt. This may not be the first thing you think about when you consider adoption. The emotional aspects of this journey are typically front and center, and for good reason. Adoption is an amazing process. But, there’s also the logistical side of things. This includes the type of adoption...

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Agency Adoption

Agency Adoption

Many hopeful adoptive parents approach adoption with dreams of being placed with a newborn baby. They imagine cradling their child in their arms for the first time — tears, laughter and a sense of awe over this new life that is now a part of their family. Is this your dream, too? If so, there’s...

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Co-Parent Adoption

Co-Parent Adoption

Co-parent adoption, also called second-parent adoption, is an increasingly popular way to establish parental rights. This corresponds directly with America’s growing support of LGBTQ families. Through the legal process of co-parent adoption, both parents can establish equal legal rights to the child with the help of an adoption attorney. This aspect of adoption is not...

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Foster Care Adoption

Foster Care Adoption

There are more than 15,000 children in the Illinois foster care system, with more than 2,000 of those in Cook County alone. Of those in care, many children could benefit from placement with a adoptive family. There’s a monumental need for loving Illinois families to provide permanency for these waiting children. If you are considering...

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Stepparent Adoption

Stepparent Adoption

Families come together in many ways. Each journey is unique, but also beautiful. There’s not a “right” way to form a family, and we passionately support the route you are taking. Stepparent adoption is one of the most common types of adoption in America; yet, it often flies under the radar. Often, infant adoptions or international...

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Relative Adoption

Relative Adoption

Relative adoption can be a beautiful and important way to form a family. Adoption is a calling for some hopeful parents — something they believe they were always meant to do. For others, it is a family-building option after a difficult struggle with infertility. There are also more utilitarian reasons for adoption, like the need...

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Adult Adoption

Adult Adoption

Adult adoption isn’t something you really consider until it’s necessary. It doesn’t cross most peoples’ minds, which means that you are most likely trying to learn about it on the fly. We’re here to help. Adult adoption is more common than you may imagine, and it’s something we specialize in. Gillespie Law Group, LLC has...

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Adoption Tax Credit

Adoption Tax Credit

One of the most common concerns hopeful adoptive parents have is the cost of the adoption process. Things can become expensive quickly. How can you make the numbers work? Without fail, this is the most prominent point of stress for families we work with. While some types of adoption have become more costly in recent...

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Placing a Baby for Adoption

Placing a Baby for Adoption

Choosing adoption for your baby is one of the most difficult decisions a woman will ever make. We know how hard this must be. You want what is best for your baby and what is best for your life. Whatever choice you make, it’s motivated by love. You deserve to be fully supported during this...

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International Adoption

International Adoption

International Adoption, Confirmation/Re-Adoption for a Foreign Adoption, SIJS Gillespie Law Group, LLC, has experience with all types of adoptions involving other countries, including: Assisting with the pre-approval process for adoptions from non-Hague countries Completing adoptions from countries which grant guardianships instead of final decrees of adoption Handling confirmations (also called re-adoptions) for adoptions completed in...

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