Craig B. Bluestein, Esquire

A Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, Craig  B. Bluestein is a solo practitioner in the Law Offices of Craig B. Bluestein, P.C., in Fort Washington and Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania. He is currently a member of the Pennsylvania, Montgomery, and Monroe County Bar Associations, as well as the New Jersey Bar Association. A recent Chair of the Family Law Section of the Montgomery Bar Association, he has over the years, chaired and lectured at numerous conferences and seminars, participated in adoption, dependency, delinquency and family law related panels, and handled many agency and independent adoption matters, intrastate and interstate, both contested and uncontested, at the trial and appellate level.

Just having completed a three year term as Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Childrens' Rights Committee, Mr. Bluestein has represented clients in a variety of cases since 1980. Having a keen interest in assisting families and children, his main emphasis throughout his career has been on family law and adoption matters.  He has also provided caring service throughout his career to injured victims, arising from auto accidents, fall downs, and other types of life altering injury cases.  Also a mediator, he has facilitated the thoughtful and caring resolution of many divorce, custody, and adoption related matters, utilizing a client centered approach.

Since 2000, he has served as an Assistant Public Defender in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the Juvenile Division. In that capacity, he has acted as Guardian Ad Litem in representing thousands of children at permanency, dependency, delinquency, termination of parental rights, contested adoption and other legal proceedings. In 2007, 2008, and 2009, he served as planner, moderator and presented at “Current Issues for Child Advocates”, a Pennsylvania Bar Institute Continuing Legal Education Seminar. He also recently provided a presentation to the Monroe County Bar Association on Hot Topics in Dependency and the Juvenile Act as well as "Interstate Adoption, the Complex Path to Parenthood".  In recent years, Mr. Bluestein has served as a member of the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the Joint State Government Task Force on Adoption and most recently served in such capacity on the task force with regard to Assisted Reproductive Technology Law. He has served as an adjunct professor at Montgomery County Community College, most recently teaching Evidence and Juvenile Justice. Mr. Bluestein continues to serve on the Childrens" Rights Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, as well as on the Council of the Solo an Small Firm Practice Section of the PBA.

Mr. Bluestein received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law.

What We Do

Our firm offers clients a wealth of experience in different areas of law, including, but not limited to:

• Divorce
• Support
• Custody
• Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights
• Dependency and Delinquency Law
• Personal Injury (auto, fall down, defective products)
• Collaborative Family Law
• Name Changes
• Civil Claims and Litigation
• Adoption Subsidy Disputes