A Florida Bar Board Certified Adoption Attorney and founding partner of Hausmann & Hickman, P.A., a law firm specialising in adoption, surrogacy and reproductive law. Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorney, Member of Executive Counsel of the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar (2003-2015), Florida Bar Adoption Certification Committee (2009-2016), the Florida Adoption Counsel (Board of Directors 2000-2013), Palm Beach County Bar Association. Lectures and publishes for Florida Bar, the Florida Adoption Counsel and the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. The University of Florida (BA 1986 and JD (1989). Represents clients in several countries on surrogacy and adoption matters.