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Understanding the Different Types of Adoption
March 20th, 2024
If you are considering adoption to grow your family, you know it is not a decision to be made lightly. Perhaps you have known for years that you hoped to adopt someday. Maybe you came to the decision to adopt more recently, after other avenues of bui…
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Categories: Adoption
Tracking Technology and Divorce Litigation
March 14th, 2024
Developments in technology over the last few decades have made it possible to do things previous generations never imagined. Want to know why your teenager is late coming home, and whether you should worry? Check their location on your phone. Wonder…
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Categories: Divorce & Family Law
Divorce Mistakes to Avoid
March 12th, 2024
For many people, the divorce process feels like a dangerous minefield they must cross on their way to a new life after the end of their marriage. Divorce involves making a lot of decisions—some relatively minor, others that can change the course of…
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Categories: Divorce & Family Law
Benefits of a Divorce Coach
January 15th, 2024
If you have been reading about divorce, or perhaps if you know someone who has recently ended their marriage, you may have heard about divorce coaching. For most people, the concept of a divorce coach is unfamiliar—and maybe a little intriguing. Wh…
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Categories: Divorce & Family Law
Birth Certificates and Parentage Orders in Surrogacy
As surrogacy attorneys, we hear a lot of questions from parents about surrogacy and birth certificates: “In surrogacy, who goes on the birth certificate as parents?” “If I am not a biological parent, how do I get on the birth certificate for my…
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Categories: Surrogacy
Dating While Separated: How Dating Apps Can Affect Your Divorce
Many of the questions we get in our family law office are about dating while separated. People are often surprised to learn that there are some fairly significant risks involved in dating while separated in South Carolina. South Carolina residents ha…
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Categories: Divorce & Family Law
How Does the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act Affect a Divorce?
November 27th, 2023
As a general rule, the divorce process is governed by the law of the state where at least one of the divorcing spouses lives. However, federal law can still have an impact on the divorce, especially when one or both spouses are in the military. If yo…
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Categories: Divorce & Family Law
A Guide to International Surrogacy
November 22nd, 2023
In every country in the world, there are hopeful parents who want nothing more than to bring home a baby to expand their family. For many of those people, gestational surrogacy is the best way to create a child. Unfortunately, surrogacy is illegal in…
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Categories: Surrogacy
What is Included in a Surrogacy Agreement?
October 16th, 2023
A surrogacy agreement, or surrogacy contract, defines the rights and responsibilities to all parties to a surrogacy. When properly drafted, a surrogacy agreement protects both the intended parents and the surrogate, and helps the surrogacy experience…
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Categories: Surrogacy
How Divorce Can Impact Your Children
October 5th, 2023
For any parent going through a divorce, the impact of divorce on children is a primary concern. We have all heard horror stories of children put in the middle of their parents’ nasty divorce, and many divorcing parents have, themselves, been childr…
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Categories: Divorce & Family Law
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Since founding Brinkley Law Firm in 2011, attorney Stephanie Brinkley has helped families grow and expand by navigating them through the legal challenges surrounding Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) and Adoption. As an attorney who focuses on f… Read More
Originally from the small city of Corning, New York, Kaitlin “Kate” Burke graduated cum laude from Keuka College in 2017, where she earned a B.A. in Political Science and History. She later moved south and is a 2020 graduate of the Charleston Sch… Read More
