Law Offices of Laurie B. Goldheim

Adoption & Reproductive Law

We’ve been helping couples and individuals realize their dreams and build their families for over 30 years and counting.

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Dedicated Exclusively to the Practice of Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology Law

Whether you are a prospective adoptive parent hoping to build your family through adoption, a birth parent seeking a loving home for your child, someone who hopes to build their family through third party reproduction, or someone who wants to help create a family by being a surrogate or a donor, the Law Offices of Laurie B. Goldheim is here to support and guide you. The three most important qualities you need in your family building attorney and that you can be assured you will have with Laurie Goldheim and her staff are experience, compassion, and trust.

The Law Offices of Laurie B. Goldheim has helped more than 4,000 New York and New Jersey families achieve their family formation goals. It would be our privilege to help you, as well.

Laurie B. Goldheim, Esq.

Laurie is dedicated to the highest standard of practice in the field of adoption and assisted reproduction law. She provides not only legal but also emotional support and guidance to all of her clients, helping them through their journey.

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Adoptive Parents

We recognize that every passing day waiting for a child can be difficult. We will guide you through each step of the adoption process and, as your attorneys, we will provide with expert legal guidance, support, and encouragement.

Birth Parents

Birth parents require and deserve more than just a knowledgeable and experienced adoption attorney. We have so much respect and admiration for you and understand that your decision to place your child for adoption is one of love and selflessness. We provide not only legal, but also emotional support and guidance, to help you through the adoption process.

Assisted Reproductive Technology

Are you pursuing a surrogacy journey? Are you searching for an egg or sperm donor? We can draft or review the donation or surrogacy agreement that protects and safeguards your legal rights and ensures legal parentage is established for your child.

Building a Family Through Adoption is Extraordinary

We help with all types of adoptions including private domestic adoptions, agency assisted adoptions, adult adoptions, second parent adoptions, stepparent adoptions, disrupted adoptions, and foster care adoptions.

Adoptive Parent Representation

Ready to build your family through surrogacy, egg, sperm, or embryo donation?

Start by learning more about your options. We provide legal services for intended parents, donors, and gestational surrogates relating to gamete donation, embryo donation, and surrogacy.

Learn About ART

Ready to build your family through surrogacy, egg, sperm, or embryo donation?

Start by learning more about your options. We provide legal services for intended parents, donors, and gestational surrogates relating to gamete donation, embryo donation, and surrogacy.

Learn About ART

Dedicated to Ethical Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Law

Building a family can take many paths. We provide the legal expertise and compassionate guidance people need to successfully build modern-day families.

A Commitment to Family Building

As an adoption and assisted reproductive law firm, we specialize in all types of family building and represent people in many situations that arise in adoption and assisted reproduction. Our practice specializes in private domestic adoptions, agency assisted adoptions and finalizations, foster care finalizations, adult adoptions, second parent adoptions, stepparent adoptions, disrupted/dissolved adoptions, registration of a foreign birth order, re-adoptions of international adoptees brought into the United States, sperm donation agreements, egg donation agreements, embryo donation agreements and surrogacy arrangements.

Our clients include expectant parents, couples, single men and women, birth parents, donors, intended parents, and gestational carriers/surrogates.

Years Building Families

Happy Families

Years Building Families

Happy Families

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As adoption and reproductive law attorneys, The Law Offices of Laurie B. Goldheim serve as a primary resource, counsel and partner to clients who seek to grow their families by contemporary means and methods, as recognized by the courts of New York and New Jersey.