Jayne Roberman is approved by New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division to conduct Adoption Home Studies in New York. For over 25 years, she has worked extensively facilitating private (domestic/ independent) adoptions by conducting home visits, preparing comprehensive home study reports for the courts, and counseling birth and adoptive families. Jayne is very familiar with the New York Courts and attorneys who facilitate adoptions.
In addition to traditional domestic adoptions, Jayne enjoys assisting same sex couples in New York State to adopt. Same sex couples (married or unmarried) can jointly adopt a child or one partner can adopt the other partner’s biological child, which is known as a second-parent or step-parent adoption.
Jayne accepts referrals from adoption attorneys, New York State Supreme and Family Courts, and prospective adoptive families.
FAQ About Adoptions
Married and unmarried couples, same sex couples, single men and women.
(1) domestic agency adoption, (2) domestic independent (private) adoption, and (3) inter-country adoption. Within domestic agency adoptions, there are public agency adoption and private agency adoption.
Second parent, step-parent, adult, and re-adoptions of international adoptions that were finalized outside of the United States
This is a comprehensive report of the pre-adoptive family’s background and child-rearing philosophies to verify for the court your suitability as adoptive parent. It is required for all private adoptions and is conducted by a Licensed Master Social Worker in the privacy of your home. The process is designed to evaluate the adoptive parents to assure that there is nothing in their homes or backgrounds which would be contrary to the best interests of the child.
Open adoption agreements, which are lawful in New York, imply that that the birth and adoptive families remain in contact following the adoption.
Adoptions are typically finalized by the court within a few months after the child has been living with you.
In either Surrogate’s Court of Family Court in the county where the adoptive family resides
