{"id":91,"date":"2017-07-07T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.wordpress.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2018-09-29T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T14:39:13","slug":"familyfriday-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/familyfriday-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"#FamilyFriday &#8211; Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this #FamilyFriday article, the attorneys at ERA Law Group, LLC want to talk about adoption.\u00a0 Adoption is the legal process of creating a parent and child relationship. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/tuesdaytips-domestic-violence-protective-order-or-peace-order\/\">Adoption<\/a> can take place in many forms.\u00a0 For example, a stepparent may be adopting their partner\u2019s child or perhaps grandparents are looking to adopt a grandchild.\u00a0 Many people tend to think of adoption involving a minor child but don\u2019t know that adults can also be adopted.\u00a0 Establishing the parent\/child relationship is important on an emotional level but also serves a legal and <a href=\"http:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/tuesdaytips-financial-powers-of-attorney-to-be-or-not-to-be\/\">financial<\/a> purpose.\u00a0 <!--more-->An adopted child can receive state and federal benefits of their parents that without the adoption only a biological child would be entitled to receive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The process of adopting, unlike many other court appearances, is usually joyous.\u00a0 After gathering the required paperwork and filing the petition, all parties appear before a Judge and celebrate the new and legally recognized family. \u00a0There are also adoption proceedings that are contested by a biological parent and don\u2019t carry the same joyous feeling. \u00a0In either case, <a href=\"http:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/tuesdaytips-new-guardianship-rules\/\">finding an attorney<\/a> to help you through the legal process is beneficial in creating or maintaining your family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taking the necessary steps to protect your family is important and ERA Law Group, LLC wants to help!\u00a0 Call us today at (443) 906-3566!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adoption is the legal process of creating a parent and child relationship and can take many forms.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434,413],"tags":[51,52,36,53,12,54,38,55,56,57,39,41,58,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-91","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adoption","8":"category-family-law","9":"tag-adoption","10":"tag-blended-family","11":"tag-children","12":"tag-family","13":"tag-family-law","14":"tag-kids","15":"tag-law","16":"tag-lawyers","17":"tag-legal","18":"tag-parental-rights","19":"tag-parenting","20":"tag-parents","21":"tag-second-parent","22":"tag-stepparent","23":"entry"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}