Adoption and surrogacy
services

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Building Families is a progressive, approachable law firm in Columbia, South Carolina that provides legal and agency services for adoption and surrogacy. We serve expectant parents, adoptive families, gestational carriers, and intended parents across the state—inclusive of all religions, marital statuses, and sexual orientations.

Pregnant and considering
adoption?

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Family looking to grow
through adoption?

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Building through surrogacy
or ART?

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We handle all types of adoption

From first conversations to a final court hearing, we guide adoptive parents through the legal and matching process in South Carolina.

Domestic Adoption

We guide families through matching, independent placements, agency adoptions, and DSS matters so the legal process stays clear and supported.

Independent Matches

When you match with an expectant mother on your own, we prepare you for every stage and connect expectant parents with social workers statewide.

Agency Adoption

If you or the expectant mother have a South Carolina connection, we handle the legal side of local or national agency adoptions.

Stepparent & Relative Adoption

We help make legal a relationship that already exists in the home, including stepparent and close-relative adoptions.

Interstate Adoption

We represent families across state lines and complete Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) requirements to finalize the adoption.

Contested Adoption

From notice issues to termination of parental rights, we build a strategy around the legal issues present in your case.

Foster Care Adoption

We help families adopting a child placed with them through the South Carolina foster care system.

Domesticating Foreign Adoption

We complete the South Carolina process to recognize a foreign adoption and establish your child's legal status here.

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Support for expectant parents

Our expectant-parent services are free. We walk alongside you, help you craft an adoption plan, connect you with counseling, and introduce you to waiting families—on your schedule, not a government program's.

  • Counseling is available before and after birth.
  • You choose the family and the level of contact.
  • We are not DSS or a foster care program.
  • Our services are free of charge to you.
  • We help you craft your own adoption plan.
  • We will come to you.
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Surrogacy and ART

We walk gestational carriers, intended parents, and donors through contracts, clinic legal clearance, and parentage orders so everyone is protected when a baby is born.

Gestational Carriers

We review and negotiate gestational carrier agreements and represent carriers in parentage proceedings so your voice is protected throughout pregnancy.

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Intended Parents

We draft gestational carrier and donor agreements, obtain clinic legal clearance, and secure pre-birth and final parentage orders.

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Egg, Sperm & Embryo Donors

We draft donor contracts and parentage proceedings for married, unmarried, heterosexual, and same-sex families using donor genetic material.

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Where we serve

Based in Columbia, Building Families works with clients across South Carolina. Meet with us in Columbia or by appointment in Greenville.

Columbia

1418 Laurel Street, Suite C
Columbia, South Carolina 29201

Greenville

Building Families LLC, #181
2131 Woodruff Road, Suite 2100
Greenville, South Carolina 29607

By appointment only

Text (24/7): 803-609-5531
Phone: 803-609-5531
Email: info@buildingfamiliessc.com

Let's start your journey

Tell us about your adoption or surrogacy goals and we will help you take the next step.

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