Honoring Adoption for Our Furry Family Members: Chatham Animal Rescue and Education
The primary focus at Stephenson & Fleming, LLP is the health, vitality, and permanence of family. Building strong and healthy families through birth, foster care, reunification, and adoption is our daily mission. We also recognize that there is another vital...
Legal Name Changes for Adults and Children
In North Carolina, there is a statutory process for legally changing an individual’s name. While similar in process, there are different requirements for name changes for adults and children. There are multiple personal reasons an individual would want to change their...
NC’s Unique Mechanisms for Supporting Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Caregivers
May is National Foster Care Month May is National Foster Care Month, a time to encourage families and children involved in the foster care system, recruit new foster parents, and support those foster, adoptive, and kinship parents already caring for children. Click...
How to Raise Resilient Compassionate Children: An Article by Angenette Stephenson
Fostering Perspectives is a publication created for foster and adoptive parents in North Carolina. It is sponsored by the NC Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Center at UNC Chapel Hill and issued twice a year. Each issue covers a...
Angenette Stephenson Featured in National Publication Discussing How to Avoid Unnecessary Removals
In February 2019, Partner Angenette Stephenson was featured in Policy and Practice by APHSA (American Public Human Services Association). In this article Angenette specifically addresses how child welfare social workers can avoid overreaching and engaging children and...
Adult Adoption in North Carolina
Adoption of an Adult Many families assume that adoption is only for children. However, adult adoptions are an option that many families can and should consider when there is an informal parent/child relationship that has never been legally formalized. Adult adoptions...