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Dawn Coppock, Tennessee's leading adoption attorney, offers extensive law resources and training for attorneys and judges.Tennessee Adoption Attorney
Dawn Coppock is Tennessee’s Leading Adoption Attorney. Dawn offers extensive adoption law resources and services for attorneys and courts.
Dawn is on the executive committee of the Tennessee Bar Association Adoption Committee and is a member of many other professional organizations. She trains other lawyers and adoption professionals, consults with other lawyers, and is a certified Rule 31 Family Law Mediator.
“Dawn Coppock is nothing short of Tennessee’s best adoption lawyer. Dawn literally wrote the go to book on adoption law for our state. Being a lawyer myself I did extensive research before hiring an adoption lawyer. Dawn is smart, honest and extremely professional. In summary, if you need an adoption lawyer and hire Dawn Coppock, you will be very well represented. “
Former Client
Adoption Law Resources for Attorneys, Judges and Courts
Free Forms and Documents for Lawyers and Judges
Forms & General Resources
- Surrender Form 2024 – Word Version
- Sample Hearing Script for Step Parent Adoption with Consent
- Sample Post Adoption Contact Agreements
Common State Adoption Forms
- State Surrender Form to DCS or Agency 2024
- State Surrender Form to Adoptive Parents 2023 (Not current and not linked.)
- Social & Medical History Form
- Waiver of Interest
- Certificate of Adoption (Birth Certification Application)
- Report of Foreign Birth
- Putative Father Registry Form with Instructions
- ICPC 100A
- Attorney Fee Affidavit
- Agency Fee Affidavit
- Consent by A Licensed Agency
- Consent by Minor
Law Blog
Resources and Articles
Summary of Tennessee Adoption Law
Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Ed. – Book Review – Tennessee Bar Jornal – September /October 2024
Tennessee’s New Adoption Law by Dawn Coppock and Michael S. Jennings – July 2018*
Shortened Surrender Revocation Period by Dawn Coppock– December 2015*
A New Concept. Enforceable Post-adoption Contact Agreements Come to Tennessee By Michael S. Jennings and William H. Vetterick – May 2019*
Happier Childhoods and Better Best Interest Factors By Dawn Coppock – July / August 2021*
*Used with permission of the Tennessee Bar Journal,
a publication of the Tennessee Bar Association
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