Sherman Oaks, CA
Adoption Lawyer at Sherman Oaks, CA
Practice Areas: Adoption
OUTCOME: Appellate court ruled for adoptive parents
Randy filed an Amicus brief ("friend of the court") supporting the position of the adoptive parents. The appellate court court ruled for the adoptive parents and allowed the adoption to proceed, determ ... ining the biological parents did not have a sufficiently significant relationship with a tribe.
OUTCOME: A case won in the California appellate court
Randy represented the adoptive parents in a case where the birth mother was a member of a Canadian Indian tribe, and the tribe objected to the birth mother's adoption plan. The trial court ruled that t ... he tribe did not have the legal right to intervene in the adoption or stop the adoption, which allowed the adoption to proceed.
OUTCOME: Adopting mother/petitioner won in appellate court
Randy successfully argued that the trial court erred, thus allowing his client, a single mother, to adopt her foster child against the wishes of the county adoption agency.