Family Formation Law Offices
Jennifer Fairfax and Catelyn Slattery at attorneys who together have decades of experience in representing clients growing their families through adoption, surrogacy and with the use of sperm, egg, and embryo donors in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. We handle private adoptions (parental placement and independent), agency adoptions, step-parent adoptions, second parent adoptions, relative adoptions and adult adoptions in all three jurisdictions. We also work with clients interested in gestational surrogacy and the use of egg, embryo or sperm donors to complete their families. The firm represents all family types and has worked with single parents, married or unmarried couples both same-sex and opposite sex and transgender clients.
The firm represents expectant parents, birth parents, intended parents, surrogates,donors (known and anonymous), adoptive parents and minor children through the adoption or ART legal process. We handle multiple Interstate Compact on the Placement on Children (ICPC) cases each month as well as handling cases involving the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), non-consensual adoptions, Birth Orders (pre-birth orders and post-birth orders), birth certificate amendment process (VA) and the re-adoption and/or finalization process for international adoptees.
For more about Jennifer's background, click, Jennifer Fairfax.
For more about Catelyn's background, click click, Catelyn Slattery.
