South Carolina Legal Services

Attorney Allison "Allie" Bullard of Building Families, LLC is a dedicated adoption and assisted reproductive technology (ART) attorney. Allie's office is located in Lexington, but her practice serves the entire state of South Carolina. Allie focuses on meeting her client needs throughout their adoption journey, including going to the hospital with her clients and walking them through each phase of the process step-by-step. She provides the same personal touch for her clients building their families through surrogacy.

Allie is here to help you build your family in the following ways:

Birth Parent Representation - As a birth mother, choosing to place your child for adoption is an unselfish and loving decision. We want to support you during this time, standing by you and ensuring that your rights are protected throughout the process.

Domestic Adoption - We work with adoptive parents who are just beginning the adoption process and looking to match with a birth mother, those who have already matched with a birth mother independently, and those who are adopting through DSS or another agency. We can help you finalize the process, so you don't have to worry about any loose ends or missed steps.

Contested Adoptions - Sometimes legal battles concerning an adoption may come up. If this happens, we can fight aggressively for the necessary outcome so that you can focus on bringing and keeping your child at home.

Foster Care Adoptions - If you wish to adopt a child out of the South Carolina foster care system, do not hesitate to call our firm and learn more about your options and how we can help you walk through the process of adopting a foster child.

Stepparent and Relative Adoption - Stepparent adoptions, in which a biological parent of a child remarries and his or her spouse wishes to assume legal parenthood, and adoptions by close relatives are usually the easiest forms of adoption to complete. We can walk you through this process and offer the guidance you need.

Second Parent Adoption - If you and your partner are unmarried but you wish to co-parent your child - or, in some situations, if your child was conceived through ART - contact Building Families, LLC for help completing a second parent adoption.

Surrogacy - As technology advances, more and more couples are able to build the families they dreamed of through methods such as surrogacy. Whether you are an intended parent, gestational carrier, egg donor, or sperm donor, we offer legal counsel and support for the decisions you face. Learn more about our surrogacy practice.