About Peter Kenny
Adoption and foster care have been a part of my life since my earliest memories as a child. My parents, James and Mary, adopted four of my siblings to add to the eight of us who were "homemade"
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Information on this website should not be relied upon as legal advice. Laws vary by jurisdiction, often change, and everyone's personal situation is different. If you need legal advice, please talk with an attorney about your individual circumstances.After completing my undergraduate studies at DePauw University in Greencastle, I entered the Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington with the goal of eventually doing something about this problem of "foster care drift". While there, I had the opportunity to study abroad in London, England for a semester. Since 1997, I have devoted my law practice to representing parents who wish to give permanent homes to children through adoption, and also to foster parents who wish to have legal representation in a variety of settings.
In 1998, my Dad and I co-founded Adoption in Child Time, Inc., or "ACT". I became its Executive Director. Lobbying Indiana’s legislature, ACT has been instrumental in achieving several changes to Indiana law, requiring prior notice be given to foster parents of court hearings involving their foster children, along with the opportunity to be heard and to make written recommendations to the court at these hearings. I have given dozens of seminars and workshops to train attorneys, caseworkers, mental health professionals, and foster/adoptive parents in the areas of foster care and adoption law.
Today, I also serve on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Foster Care and Adoption Association, Inc., and on the Advisory Board of Fostering Families Today Magazine.
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