Hausmann & Hickman PA

Specialties

As a partner in Hausmann & Hickman, P.A. and a Board Certified Adoption Lawyer, Amy Hickman specializes in adoption law with an additional focus on reproductive law. Amy handles private placement, stepparent, close-relative, and same-sex adoption. She also handles domestication and re-adoption of foreign-born children. As Florida law is quite favorable regarding gestational surrogacy, Amy has represented intended parents, recipient parents, gestational carriers, and donors. Her knowledge includes drafting gestational surrogacy agreements, pre-planned adoption agreements, donor-recipient contracts, and obtaining pre-birth and final declaratory judgments. Amy has placed hundreds of children for adoption, created numerous families through surrogacy and preplanned adoption arrangements and represented parties in contested adoption proceedings.