Course description
Inter-Country Adoption is an area of law where uninformed advice can have far reaching consequences affecting children, adopters and birth parents.
Presented by Naomi Angell, head of the adoption, surrogacy and fertility law unit at Osbornes Law, this virtual classroom seminar will provide family law practitioners with an introduction to the main issues and legal structure of the family law aspects of intercountry adoption and other adoptions with a foreign element. It will also enable immigration law practitioners to understand how this area of family law interfaces with immigration law and practice and where a client needs family law as well as immigration advice.
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Training Course Content
Introduction
This virtual classroom seminar will provide family law practitioners with an introduction to the main issues and legal structure of the family law aspects of intercountry adoption and other adoptions with a foreign element. It will also enable immigration law practitioners to understand how this area of family law interfaces with immigration law and practice and where a client needs family law as well as immigration advice.
It is an area of law where uninformed advice can have far reaching consequences affecting children, adopters and birth parents.
What You Will Learn
This live and interactive session will cover the following:
- Different types of foreign adoptions
- Recognition of foreign adoptions
- The significance of habitual residence and domicile
- Restrictions on bringing children into this country involved in intercountry adoptions and criminal offences
- The role of local authorities and of the Department for Education
- Step-parent and relative adoptions with a foreign element
- Intercountry adoption and expatriates
- Outline of where immigration law and practice interface with family law in foreign adoption cases
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