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Randall hicks writerattorney randall hicks inc linkedin. International adoption also referred to as intercountry adoption or transnational adoption is a type of adoption in which an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parents of a child who is a national of a different country. A wealthy couple is being blackmailed due to their black market adoption of their daughter sixteen years ago. How to adopt within one year for adoptive parents planning a traditional adoption, revised edition 2018. Randall hicks has been an attorney limiting his practice to adoption for 33 years, with offices in riverside, san diego, irvine and sherman oaks.
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