Contact a paralegal, an attorney, or a legal secretary in your state who has worked on adoption cases in the past. Obtain answers to the following questions.

1.How many adoption cases have you worked on?
2.How many of them have been uncontested?
3.Approximately how long does it take to process an uncomplicated, uncontested adoption?
4.Is there a difference between working on an adoption case and working on another kind of case in the law office? If so, what is the difference?
5.What are the major steps for processing an adoption in this state? What documents must be filed? What court appearances must be made? Etc.
6.What formbook or other treatise do you use, if any, that is helpful? What software?
7.Does your office have its own internal manual that covers any aspect of adoption practice?
8.In an adoption case, what is the division of labor among the attorney, the paralegal, and the legal secretary?