Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Ed.

Tennessee’s authoritative adoption manual has been revised and expanded. In this 8th and final Edition, Dawn is more candid than ever, sharing the things she wished someone had taught her 35 years ago. In addition to detailed discussion of Tennessee adoption law, practice direction, and checklists, the bound law book comes with an electronic library of revised and expanded legal forms for all types of adoption cases.
Big statutory changes occurred in 2023. This book offers the most current information, plus policy and practice all in one volume.
You don’t need to go it alone.
 
Expect:
  • The clear, practical book that you depend on with double the pages of legal discussion,*
  • Updated practice forms for all common case types,
  • New practice forms, including discovery forms,
  • Step-by-step checklists for all the common case types, revised and expanded.

 

Table of Contents & Book Detail

 

“This is my last edition, so I tilted my head and shook out all my best stuff for you and your clients. It’s sassier too. I couldn’t help it…”

-Dawn Coppock 
 
 

Adoption Law School In the Mountains – 2024

Learn Tennessee adoption law
from the first client call to
the new birth certificate with the lawyer
who wrote the book.

Adoption Law School is Dawn Coppock’s signature class offered only every year or two.  Adoption Law School has always been on the Gulf Coast. But April 10-12, 2024, Adoption Law School is in Tennessee.

This popular and much loved seminar is the only source for comprehensive training on Tennessee adoption law except to read Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Ed. alone. The brand-new 8th and final edition is the text for the classes, which will convene in Tennessee’s own vacation destination, Sevier County, in the Smoky Mountains.

What students love is closer to home:

  • Comprehensive, up-to-the-minute legal curriculum. You will leave competent.
  • Dawn’s practical, efficient, and irreverent presentation style. You won’t be bored.
  • 100% of your annual CLE (12 hours general, 3 hours dual),
  • 1 full day and 2 short days for plenty of vacation time,
  • A yoga class for CLE credit
  • Two breakfasts, one lunch and the best CLE snacks ever,
  • Time to socialize with other good lawyers who care about families.
  • A special, optional, evening social event on Wednesday night

PLUS

  • A springtime weekend in the Smokies on your own.
    Class is dismissed at 1:00 pm on Friday, April 12.

Schedule

Location
The Sevierville Civic Center
120 Gary Wade Blvd.
Sevierville, TN 37862

See the Registration page for more details.

To learn more about developments in Tennessee Adoption Law:

PRESENTED BY

Dawn Coppock,
Attorney and Author

Dawn is the foremost trainer on adoption law in Tennessee.  For her answers to their questions, both serious and silly, see the January 2019 Tennessee Bar Journal, a publication of the Tennessee Bar Association. here.*      *Used with permission.

Good Seminars
for
Good Lawyers

Become a Competent and Confident Adoption Lawyer
  • Includes yoga and mindfullness training
  • Develop competence and confidence in the subject area
  • Learn compassionate, child-centered strategies to help you help families
  • Create and strengthen networks with other attendees
  • Work through real practice challenges with clear, current materials and practice forms
  • Stay interested and entertained

Presented by
Dawn Coppock,
Attorney and Author

Author of
Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Edition (Coming Soon!)

 

Engaging content,
with practical exercises.

The Adoption Law School In The Mountains will prepare you with forms, checklists and practical advice to ensure you will be competent, confident and ready to practice adoption law.

Adoption Law School In the Mountains - Schedule

April 10, 2024
1:00 PM-2:00 PM Work / Life Balance
2:00 PM-2:30 PM Which Parents are Parents
2:30 PM-2:45 PM Break
2:45 PM-3:15 PM Voluntary Consents
3:15 PM-3:45 PM Best Interest Statutory
3:45 PM-4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM-5:00 PM What to file. Where to file.
5:00 PM-5:30 PM What’s your job? Who is your client?

April 11, 2024
8:30 AM-9:00 AM Jurisdiction
9:00 AM-9:30 AM Petition, Service, Answer & Default
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Pretrial Procedure, Parentage, Amendments
10:00 AM-10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM-10:45 AM Discovery & Motions
10:45 AM-11:45 AM Trial Procedure, Evidence, Experts, Findings. Appeals
11:45 AM-12:30 PM Break / Lunch
12:30 PM-1:30 PM Dialog with Trial Judges
1:30 PM-2:30 PM Grounds
2:30 PM-2:45 PM Break
2:45 PM-3:15 PM Ethics: Open Adoption
3:15 PM-3:45 PM Finalization
3:45 PM-4:00 PM When Petitioners Lose
4:00 PM-4:45 PM Private & State Agency Adoption and Children born abroad.

April 12, 2024
8:30 AM-9:30 AM Yoga
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Adoption Assistance
10:00 AM-10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM-10:45 AM Step Parent & Relative Adoption
10:45 AM-11:45 AM Independent Adoption & Adoption Assistance
11:45 AM-12:00 PM Break
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Best Interest Science & Experts

 

 

About Good Law

At Good Law we don’t produce seminars just to check a continuing education box. Your time and money and your client’s needs are too important for that. Good Law teaches you the law and skills necessary to represent clients with competence and confidence. And you will stay interested and entertained all day!

Dawn will tell you, show you and then let you try so you can ask the questions that only arise when you begin. At last, practical legal skill efficiently taught.

Good Law, Good Seminars for Good Lawyers.

 

 

About the Speaker

Author of Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 8th Edition (Coming Soon!)

Dawn Coppock, Attorney at Law, is a Sole Practitioner based in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.  Her practice is limited to adoption law, including representation of both birth parents and adoptive parents in independent, agency, interstate, state agency, international, and relative adoptions, adoption record searches, contested adoptions, adoption appeals, and adoption subsidy disputes. Ms. Coppock is also a certified Juvenile-Child Welfare Specialist and a Tennessee Rule 31 mediator.

Ms. Coppock received her J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and her B.S. from Carson-Newman College, in Jefferson City, Tennessee.

Ms. Coppock is a member of the Family Law Section and Adoption Section of the Tennessee Bar Association and a member of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association.

Ms. Coppock is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has twice been listed among the best lawyers in Tennessee by Tennessee Business magazine. In 2004, she was named an Angel in Adoption by the U.S. Congressional Coalition on Adoption. In 2010, she received the Bill Williams Service Award for service to Tennessee children awaiting adoption.

 

Testimonials

Comments from past seminar attendees

 

 

" Contrary to popular belief, adoption law isn’t as cut and dry as it may seem. Adoptions and termination of parental rights can be full of nuance and pitfalls that the ill informed may not anticipate.  Dawn’s seminar goes the extra mile to fill in the gaps and provide a roadmap for a successful and adept adoption practice."
- John F. Weaver, Jr.

 

 

"This is the best CLE I have ever been to.  Dawn keeps things fun & interesting while teaching a lot of technical law.
This is invaluable if you want to practice in adoption law in TN."
-Blair Kennedy

 

 

 

"BEST CLE I have attended in 14 years of practice!!  Clear, concise, entertaining, well organized and informative.
This was worth every penny.  Thank you!"
- Andrea Rigdon

 

 

 

“Wonderful seminar.  Very informative on adoption law and also practice in general.
So glad I came.”
-Leigh Taylor White

 

 "Great seminar!  Dawn is very informative and entertaining too!"
- Daphne Moffatt

 

 

 

 

"A good, in-depth and practical seminar presented in an engaging manner and backed up with top-notch written materials."
- M.A. Birdwell

 

 

"Great command of the topic and illustrations from practical experience.  Book provides extremely useful resources for forms and templates.  Plain spoken approach is easier to follow than lecturing."
- David K. Calfee

 

 

"I had to leave but wanted to stay.  That has never happened before!"
- Bill Routh

Contact Information

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