“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” - Rabbinical Saying

“If we don't stand up for our children, then we don't stand for much.” - Marian Wright Edelman

“Whether we send our children to private school or public school we should take a constant interest in all educational institutions and remember that on the public school largely depends the success or the failure of our great experiment in government “by the people, for the people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Services

Adoption

Children’s Law Group represents clients in contested and uncontested adoptions, second-parent adoptions, and DCFS adoptions.

We have extensive experience helping adoptive parents struggling with challenging issues that can arise in the adoption process. We have represented parents in custody disputes with biological parents and relatives. We also work with adoptive parents to secure the educational, medical, or psychiatric services their child requires.

Please note that Children’s Law Group LLC is not an adoption agency or a child-welfare agency. Our adoption services are restricted to legal services as permitted by law.

Juvenile Guardianship

The attorneys at Children’s Law Group represent parties in guardianship actions involving children under the Illinois Juvenile Court Act and the Illinois Probate Act. We have extensive experience representing family members wishing to become guardians of children whose parents cannot assume full responsibility for their care and working with families to establish agreed guardianship orders. We have also represented parents objecting to the appointment of a guardian, seeking to have a guardianship terminated, or exercising their right to maintain contact with a child in guardianship.