Firm Overview

Atlanta Foster Care, Assisted Reproduction & Adoption Attorneys

Hedgepeth & Heredia LLC represents clients in family law matters in the Atlanta area and throughout Georgia.  Our firm has particular expertise in the areas of adoption, assisted reproductive technology, and surrogacy.  For over 30 years we have provided clients with outstanding representation in the area of family law, and the firm has an established reputation within the Georgia legal community for our commitment to our clients and our passion for assisting our clients.  Jon W. Hedgepeth and Hannibal F. Heredia, both partners at the firm, have each practiced family law almost exclusively throughout their legal careers.

As well respected Atlanta adoption attorneys with a reputation in the Georgia legal community for more than 30 years, our adoption attorneys have continuously provided clients with superior representation in family law. We pride ourselves on our steadfast commitment to serve our families during this stressful, albeit exciting, chapter in their lives. 

A successful adoption involves accurate and timely filing of legal paperwork, a determination of parental rights and securing the adoption decree. The attorneys at Hedgepeth & Heredia, LLC know how to successfully navigate through the Georgia adoption process for the following types of adoption:

• Domestic adoption
• Adoption by a step-parent or co-parent
• Adoption by a relative
• Interstate compact (adoption of a child in one state by parents residing in another state)
• Domestication of foreign (or intercountry) adoptions (the adoptive family may elect to domesticate or “re-adopt” a child who was originally adopted in a foreign country. This allows the adoptive family to easily obtain a Georgia adoption decree and birth certificate from the Georgia Vital Records office.)

The law firm of Hedgepeth & Heredia, LLC is also well versed in arranging for assisted reproduction or a surrogacy. Assisted reproduction can involve in-vitro fertilization or artificial insemination, an egg or sperm donor and either the intended mother or a surrogate. 

A surrogacy can occur either by using a traditional surrogate (surrogate’s egg is fertilized by artificial insemination) or by utilizing a gestational carrier (in-vitro fertilization is used to transfer another woman’s fertilized egg into the surrogate’s uterus). Either path a family chooses requires a skilled adoption attorney to draft the comprehensive agreements. The adoption attorney’s goal, for both an assisted reproduction and a surrogacy, is to protect the intended parents’ rights and to determine the obligations of the intended parents. Additionally, the adoption attorney may also need to define the obligations of the surrogate and the donor.

At Hedgepeth & Heredia, LLC we are well aware that the laws governing assisted reproduction technology are constantly evolving, and so we tirelessly keep abreast of those changes in order to continuously and completely protect our families’ legal rights.

We unfailingly provide effective and compassionate representation to our families during the sometimes stressful and emotional process of an adoption, assisted reproductive technology procedure or a surrogacy.

For additional information on the legalities involved in assisted reproductive technology please visit us at www.assistedreproductionlaw.com.

To arrange a confidential consultation with one of our Atlanta adoption attorneys at the law firm of Hedgepeth & Heredia, LLC you can reach us by telephone at 404-846-7025 or by filling out the online form under Contact Us.