While the vast majority of his adoption practice is focused on domestic private adoptions and helping birth parents find the best families for their children, he is also experienced in step-parent adoptions, domesticating foreign adoptions and foster-to-adopt adoptions. As an adoptive parent himself (international and domestic), Miller knows the trials and tribulations of living through an adoptio
n. Helping the birth parents and prospective adoptive parents communicate fully during the adoption process assures the least amount of complications. Over the years, Miller, an AV Preeminent rated attorney for over 20 consecutive years, has also developed a specialty in assisting other adoption attorneys and adoption agencies with “complicated” or “disrupted” adoptions. Adoption litigation is a complex sub-specialty of adoption law and Miller draws from his years of experience as a criminal defense trial lawyer and family law attorney to provide legal assistance to “troubled” adoptions. This sub-specialty typically involves addressing claims by birth parents that their consents were wrongfully obtained, but a growing area of adoption litigation now involves claims by birth fathers claiming their rights have been wrongfully terminated. Unlike most adoption attorneys or adoption agencies, Miller does not represent prospective adoptive parents unless they have already been matched with a birth parent, in other words, he does not help prospective adoptive parents “find” children, he helps birth parents find the right family for their child.
