Caring, Skilled Adoption Services Since 1987

At the Anaheim Hills, California, FAMILYBUILDING, A Professional Law Corporation, we are 100 percent committed to assisting people in all matters related to adoption and the well being of children.

Our office serves as a resource for birth mothers who are considering an adoption plan for their child. We help prospective birth mothers understand the issues involved in adoption and we help them find loving, stable homes for their children. We represent couples seeking to expand their family through adoption or through foster care parenting and we knowledgeably guide them through the adoption process.

Attorney Ted R. Youmans and his wife, Sheryl, the FAMILYBUILDING office manager, have personal and professional understanding of what Adoption, foster care and guardianship matters entail and the joys that it brings to all of those involved.

We answer our phones 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. We are committed to helping those involved or potentially involved in a child’s life set aside their own needs and focus on the best interest of a child. It is in this spirit that Mr. Youmans has helped thousands of families throughout the United States make the choice that will offer a child the best possible future.

We offer guidance and serve as a resource in the following areas:

• Private or independent adoption

• Agency adoption

• Foster parent adoption

• Relative adoption

• Step parent adoption

• Unplanned pregnancy

• Guardianships

• Birth mothers and issues and answers related to adoption

• The truths about adoption

• The truths about birth parent(s) placing their child for adoption

A Lawyer Focused on Reforming Adoption Law

Lawyer Ted R. Youmans is a Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and the Academy of California Adoption Lawyers, select groups of adoption attorneys known for their commitment, ethics and client services in adoption and family formation law. A number of his cases related to adoption matters have influenced the way lawmakers and California courts view adoption, birth mother’s, children and birth father’s rights.