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Live Seminar: Creating Families Forever: The How To of The Adoption Process

Date: October 9, 2008
Time: 8:30am - 4:15pm

 

This seminar is full - please call Jean Merrill at (803) 771-0333 x125 or email her at jmerrill@scbar.org to be added to the 'wait list'
Seminar Agenda
  8:30 a.m.    Registration & Continental Breakfast
  9:00 a.m.    Welcome and Introduction
                     Tiffany R. Spann-Wilder, Esquire
  9:15 a.m.    Adoption Law: South Carolina & Slightly Beyond
                    (SC Adoption Rules and Some of the Intricacies for
                     International)
                     James Fletcher Thompson, Esquire
10:00 a.m.    The Process for Agency vs. Privae: The Good,
                     The Bad = A Family
                     James Fletcher Thompson, Esquire
11:00 a.m.    Mid-morning Break
11:15 a.m.    Resources: Where to Go When You Don't Know
                     (Assistance for Needs During & After the Process; Financial
                     & Emotional)
                     Tiffany R. Spann-Wilder, Esquire
                     Rebecca Carney LMSW
12:15 p.m.    Lunch (not included)
  1:30 p.m.    Get Your House in Order: Having A Home Study
                     Jill M. Corrigan LISW/CP (Certified Adoption Investigator &
                     Certified for Relinquishments & Consents)
  2:00 p.m.    The Child's Best Interest: GAL Role & Requirements
                     Patricia L. Forbis, Esquire
  2:45 p.m.    Mid-afternoon Break
  3:00 p.m.    Mock Hearings: "What to Do When you Do"
                     Termination of Parental Rights (TPR)
                     Adoption Final Hearing:
                       - - PARTICIPANTS - - 
                     Judge (T.B.D).
                     Ellen Babb, Esquire - Adoptive Mom
                     Hunter Morris, Esquire - Adoptive Dad
                     James Fletcher Thompson, Esquire
                     Patricia L. Forbis, Esquire
                     Tiffany R. Spann - Wilder, Esquire
  4:15p.m.     Adjourn
                     Patricia L. Forbis, Esquire

About the Seminar
The SC Bar-CLE Division and the Young Lawyers Division are pleased to co-sponsor Creating Families Forever - The "How-To's of the Adoption Process".  This powerful seminar is in conjunction with the South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division new service project FAMILIES FOREVER, which is designed to educate South Carolinians about adoption and provide them with tools that will help families stay together forever.

 

Course Planner and Moderator Tiffany Spann-Wilder has brought together an energetic faculty of some of South Carolina's most experienced adoption law practitioners who will teach you how to navigate the complex waters of the state, national, and international adoption process.  This program is part of the YLD's 2008 service to the Bar in which young lawyers and others interested in this area can learn how to handle adoptions and better serve as Guardians ad Litems.

 

If you want to learn about adoption procedure and law, sharpen your skills as a GAL, or expand your knowledge of South Carolina Family Court practice in this crucial area, this program is for you.

 

Because of YLD co-sponsorship, this powerful seminar is offered at a significantly reduced rate!  Reserve your space now as seating is limited!

 

Mandatory CLE (MCLE/JCLE) and Legal Ethics
and Professional Responsibility (LEPR) Credit Hours
This program qualifies for 5.25 MCLE credit hours.