“...it’s easy for parents to,forget...”
I’m sure that ALL international adoptions have lawyers involved, this is something for the lawyer to be aware of and handle.
If something like this happened to me I would sue the attorney for malpractice and I imagine I would win.
Fortunately our adoptions were after 2000 so our kids were covered by the change in law
The only lawyer we saw was in a Russian courtroom
That was 14 years ago
So no, there is no requirement for a U.S. lawyer to be involved unless the kids were re adopted in the US - ours weren’t