When you are expecting and weighing your options, or when years of hoping for a child have led you to adoption, the right lawyer changes everything about how the road ahead feels. Hausmann & Hickman, P.A. concentrates solely on adoption and reproductive law, and our Miramar adoption attorneys serve this growing southwest Broward community with equal parts warmth and rigor. Expectant mothers and adoptive families both receive our full attention, because a healthy adoption honors everyone in it.
Confidentiality frames all of our work. What you tell us stays with us, whether you call once to ask a question or work with us for a year. And with the firm’s Broward County office in Plantation a manageable drive north, personal meetings never require a long haul across South Florida.
Private Adoption in Miramar
Families here often ask what makes private adoption in Miramar different from what they have seen on television or heard about from friends. The answer starts with our private adoption placement program, which introduces birth mothers to carefully prepared adoptive families in a fully confidential setting, with no involvement from the Florida Department of Children and Families at any stage.
Just as important is who steers the process. The birth mother selects the family who will raise her child, chooses how much communication she wants during the pregnancy, and decides what contact she would like after delivery. She pays nothing for any of our services, and our team is on call for her day and night. Adoptive parents value this framework too, because an adoption grounded in the birth mother’s free and informed choice is one that everyone can build on with confidence.
Miramar, FL
Miramar has grown remarkably in recent decades, transforming into one of southwest Broward’s most dynamic family communities. People arrive here from across the country and around the world, giving the city a diversity that shows in its neighborhoods, its gatherings, and its churches and community spaces. It is a city of young families, and that spirit of building something new makes it a natural place for adoption stories to begin.
That same diversity is reflected in the families we serve. Our firm welcomes a wide range of families, including LGBTQ+ couples, single parents, and out-of-state residents. Our Broward County Adoption Attorneys page describes the county-wide reach behind that work.
The Path Through a Private Adoption in Miramar
A private adoption in Miramar feels less daunting once you can see the whole route. Here is how the journey typically unfolds for our clients:
- Your consultation: We start by listening, then lay out how Florida adoption law applies to your particular circumstances.
- Birth mother decisions: She builds an adoption plan around her own wishes, naming the family she has chosen and the contact she wants before and after the birth.
- Placement through our program: The confidential match is made, and both sides move forward with clear expectations.
- Compliance: Every consent, notice, and filing is prepared with care to satisfy each requirement of Florida law.
- Finalization: The court enters its judgment, and the child legally and permanently joins the adoptive family.
Board Certified Miramar Adoption Attorneys
Board certification in adoption law belongs to only a select number of attorneys across Florida, and it signifies demonstrated mastery of adoption and reproductive law. That credential anchors our practice, alongside more than 25 years of experience and a record of assisting in the creation of over a thousand families through adoption and surrogacy statewide.
Miramar families also benefit from the breadth behind those numbers. Our work spans newborn placements, stepparent and relative adoptions, adult adoption, interstate cases under the ICPC, gestational surrogacy agreements, second parent adoptions, and contested adoption litigation. When your Miramar adoption attorneys have seen nearly every turn a case can take, fewer surprises reach you.
Speak with an Adoption Attorney Serving Miramar
The hardest call to make is usually the first one, so we work to make it easy. There is no script you need to follow and no decision you must have made; curiosity is reason enough to reach out.
A Miramar adoption attorney can be reached at 561-732-7030, or through the contact page on our website, and every exchange remains strictly confidential. Should you want to meet in person, our Broward office in Plantation welcomes Miramar families by appointment.
Miramar Adoption FAQs
How does your placement program work?
Our private adoption placement program matches birth mothers with adoptive families in a confidential process guided entirely by our firm. The birth mother reviews and chooses the family, and the match proceeds without any DCF involvement.
What contact can a birth mother have after the birth?
Exactly the amount she chooses. Communication before delivery and contact afterward are both hers to define, and we help put those wishes in writing so they are respected.
Is everything really confidential?
It is. From your first phone call through finalization, all conversations with our firm are held in strict confidence, which is a large part of why families choose private adoption in Miramar.
What other family-building matters do you handle?
Beyond private newborn adoption, we assist with stepparent and relative adoptions, adult adoptions, interstate placements, gestational surrogacy agreements, and related reproductive law matters.
Serving Miramar and Nearby Communities
Our practice reaches across southwest Broward and the entire county beyond it. These neighboring pages may interest you as well:
