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An Introduction to Inter-Country Adoption for Family & Immigration Lawyers - Learn Live

Length
1.5 hours
Next course start
19 March, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom
Length
1.5 hours
Next course start
19 March, 2025 See details
Course delivery
Virtual Classroom

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.

Upcoming start dates

1 start date available

19 March, 2025

  • Virtual Classroom
  • Online
  • English

Outcome / Qualification etc.

Following all MBL courses, a certificate of attendance will be provided for those who are required to evidence their CPD activity to a professional body.

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

Expenses

From £144
MBL Seminars Limited
C/o Law Business Research
Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn
WC1V 7QT London

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