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Schweitzer & Scherr Law Firm

Schweitzer & Scherr attorneys practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Our law practice focuses on issues pertaining to adoption, foster care, family law, children, child serving nonprofit agencies, adult and child guardianships, charter schools, child welfare and social work. The firm engages in trial and appellate civil litigation.

Schweitzer & Scherr lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of adoption law including:

• contested adoptions
  
• step-parent and relative adoptions
  
• private adoptions
  
• foster parent adoptions
  
• international adoptions
  
• interstate adoptions
  

We also provide representation in cases of “wrongful adoptions” -- when adopters claim that the adoption agency misrepresented the health or condition of the child.

Schweitzer & Scherr also engages in nonprofit corporation law with a concentration in nonprofit agencies that serve families and children. Such work involves:

• risk management
  
• liability
  
• insurance
  
• private-public joint ventures
  
• contracting with the government
  
• developing policies and procedures manuals
  
• the impact of local and federal welfare law on agency practices and confidentiality

The Firm assists in the creation of child-placing agencies and non profits in general including obtaining federal and local tax-exempt status and obtaining the necessary licenses and permits to operate a child-placing agency.

Schweitzer & Scherr also has expertise in family law involving:

• child custody
  
• guardianship
• child abuse and neglect matters

In addition, Schweitzer & Scherr provides advice and advocacy to social workers who are involved in licensing and disciplinary proceedings.

 

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