Ms Janet S Story Jd

About Ms Janet S Story Jd

<p>Ms. Story&rsquo;s practice is limited to adoptions. She focuses on adoptions from the foster care system (also known as &ldquo;DCS adoptions&rdquo;). She also handles stepparent adoptions. Ms. Story has been practicing law since 1991, and has spent the last 22 years working in the adoption field. She has finalized the adoptions of hundreds of children from the foster care system since 1999. She is well-versed in all topics related to DCS adoptions including the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), adoption subsidy and the adoption tax credit. Certain adoptive families (primarily older or disabled adoptive parents) may qualify to collect Social Security benefits for their adopted children. Ms. Story is uniquely positioned to explain the intersection of those two types of benefits due to her previous employment with the Social Security Administration. She is also experienced in handling DCS adoptions involving the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), which is when children from Arizona are placed out-of-state (usually with relatives), or a child from an out-of-state DCS system is placed in Arizona. Those cases can involve some unique challenges which Ms. Story&rsquo;s experience has equipped her to resolve.</p> <p>Ms. Story has also completed a number of adult adoptions. Her most satisfying case in that arena was to help one of her father&rsquo;s friends adopt his adult stepdaughter shortly before he passed away. She has helped many other wonderful families formalize long-existing family relationships, usually as stepparent/steparent, through the legal process so that they can now officially be &ldquo;mom&rdquo; or &ldquo;dad&rdquo; to the adult child they have cared for for years. </p> <p>Ms. Story is a sought-after speaker on the topic of adoption and regularly teaches seminars on this topic for the Volunteer Lawyers Program and the State Bar of Arizona. She frequently advises other attorneys who have adoption-related questions. Ms. Story has won numerous awards in her field, including Attorney Mentor of the Year in 2022.</p> <p>Ms. Story has practiced law with her sister, Sara Rodriguez-Story, since 2010. Ms. Rodriguez-Story has a Master&rsquo;s in Social Work in addition to her law degree. She has worked as an adoption social worker on the East Coast, writing adoptive home studies and running adoption groups. Ms. Rodriguez-Story is fluent in Spanish which enables us to serve our Spanish-speaking clients directly without the use of an interpreter. </p> <p>Ms. Story loves her work and helping clients navigate the DCS foster care and adoption system. Her services are frequently recommended on foster and adoption parents&rsquo; Facebook groups by satisfied current and former clients. She is happy to assist you with your DCS adoption and may be able to assist you in other types of adoption as well, workload permitting. </p> <p>Ms. Story&rsquo;s fees for DCS adoptions are covered by the DCS adoption subsidy program. Feel free to contact her at 480-947-8864 or jstory3958@aol.com. </p>

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