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Our adoption attorneys have extensive experience in dealing with contested adoptions and have represented both adoptive parents in contested adoptions as well as biological parents contesting a proposed adoption. Our attorneys have significant experience in preparing and effectively presenting contested adoptions to a trial court. If you are seeking to contest a proposed adoption or are seeking to adopt a child where the other parent will likely contest the adoption, please contact Christine Stolle or Steven Fillenwarth at 317.638.7473 to lead you through the process.

Prospective adoptive families adopting through the Indiana Department of Child Services will need to undergo an adoptive home study and receive special needs adoption training. In public agency adoptions, adoption subsidies may be available to cover non-recurring expenses, such as attorney’s fees. The adoption attorneys at Fillenwarth & Stolle are experienced in navigating the steps that are required as part of a public agency adoption. Our attorneys also have extensive experience in effectively negotiating adoption subsidies that may be available when adopting a child.

Our family law attorneys have extensive experience in facilitating adoptions by a step-parent. Step-parent adoptions do not always require the consent by the other biological parent. Our skilled lawyers are knowledgeable in navigating through Indiana’s notice and consent requirements required in an adoption case. We also have significant experience representing parents and step-parents in contested adoption cases.

Steve Fillenwarth is a principal in Fillenwarth & Associates practicing almost exclusively family law in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Fillenwarth is also a Certified Public Accountant who brings extensive experience in business and pension valuation, estate planning techniques, and knowledge of complex tax matters relating to divorce and relationship dissolutions to his practice of family law. Mr. Fillenwarth specializes in financially complicated marital estates. He also has extensive experience representing parents and children litigating and negotiating complex child custody and divorce cases.

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