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AREAS OF PRACTICE
The firm handles all legal issues related to family building, including:
• Adoption - Ballard, Desai, Bush-Joseph & Horwich provides legal services in hundreds of adoptions each year of all types, including agency-assisted (identified), agency, private, interstate, international, related, co-parent, foster care and adult adoptions. For prospective adoptive parents interested in privately-arranged adoptions, Ballard, Desai, Bush-Joseph & Horwich works closely with adoption consultants and agencies who help their clients identify and interact with the clients' birth families. The firm also provides legal services to birth parents interested in making adoption plans. Finally, the firm provides a variety of consulting services to public and private agencies and other professionals providing adoption services.
• Collaborative Reproduction - The firm enjoys a national reputation in the area of collaborative reproduction, and has provided counsel on a wide range of legal issues, including both anonymous and identified egg donor and donor insemination arrangements, as well as gestational carrier and traditional forms of surrogacy. Ballard, Desai, Bush-Joseph & Horwich advises clients considering these options about their legal rights and responsibilities, prepares and negotiates contracts for them, works with other responsible professionals providing services, and handles the administrative and court proceedings necessary to legally recognize these arrangements. The firm accepts clients without regard to marital status or sexual orientation.
• Reproductive Technology Consulting - As the practice of reproductive technology becomes more complex and more competitive, medical and other professionals increasingly require up to the minute advice on issues affecting their practice, including regulatory developments, practice standards, risk management concerns, and program development. Ballard, Desai, Bush-Joseph & Horwich is frequently consulted by physicians, labs and professional groups about legal, ethical, and practical issues related to collaborative reproduction, embryo disposition, informed consent, insurance coverage and other practice areas. The firm also serves as consulting counsel in selected cases, to assist with aspects of trial and/or appellate work related to reproductive technology issues.
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