Practice Devoted to Adoptions

General Info

The choice to pursue an adoption is a life long process and one based on love, whether you are a family choosing to add to that family through adoption or whether you are a birth parent choosing a family to raise your child. Although the legal aspect of adoption has a finite end, the effect lasts a lifetime. Because adoption is the single most legally significant event in your life, it is important to choose a lawyer that understands that significance. Since 1994, I have dedicated my career to building families through adoption and assisted reproductive technologies. I believe adoption to be a positive option for many families, birth parents and children. Adoption should always be child centered and should proceed to accomodate that child's best interests. My goal is to make sure that every adoption is legally secure, professionally handled and emotionally respected.

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Categories

Attorneys, Adoption Services

Associations

Ms. Collins is a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys where she sits as a member of their Board of Trustees for 2005-2007. Ms. Collins also serves as secretary of the Middle Tennessee Inter-Agency Adoption Coalition, an association of adoption agencies and attorneys in the Middle Tennessee area. She developed and chaired their 2000-2005 Adoption Awareness Campaigns to coincide with National Adoption Month. Ms. Collins has been a presenter at adoption seminars for the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, the National Business Institute, the Inter-Agency Adoption Coalition, the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts, county clerk divisions and county bar associations, RESOLVE, and for various private adoption agencies and adoption interest groups. She has also taught adoption law at Vanderbilt Law School's Juvenile Practice Clinic and for the Nashville School of Law.

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Tennessee Adoption