When you put a baby up for adoption do the adoptive parents have to pay to get the child?
mizz linda asked:
Like is there a law saying they have to pay?
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Like is there a law saying they have to pay?
August 12th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
just a lawyer.
August 15th, 2009 at 3:24 am
I’m adopted myself and I don’t think the adoptive parents have to pay for it. Some birthparents ask for it and usually the adoptive parents pay for the medical expenses and such but there’s no law saying they HAVE to pay.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:18 am
in ohio it is illegal for the real parents to be paid , but the sad thing is , the rich people adopting the baby pay lawyers. so it is like the parents are giving away the most precious gift for no money and the lawyers make a bunch of money on the deal.
so a lawyer basically sells a baby to a rich couple and keeps all the money.
if someone is giving up the baby because they are poor i think they should be given some money to help them get their lives back on track like for school or transportation to a job or a nicer trailer home to live in.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
There are several costs involved, however, it’s actually illegal to “pay” for a child. For instance, our adoption was relatively inexpensive, as we paid $350 for a home study, and $500 for attorney fees, and there were a few hundred more dollars in fees associated with the paperwork involved, including birth certificates, which we’d have had to pay for if we’d given birth ourselves.
In foster care adoptions, most of the expenses are paid by the state.
In agency adoptions, fees can go in the 10’s of 1000’s of dollars. What’s a real tragedy is that there are fees associated with each baby. As horrid as it is, I saw an agency advertise fees for adopting a child who was mixed race was $15,000, and a caucasian baby was $50,000. I detest agencies.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
No. You don’t have to “buy” the chid. If you’re not adopting the child from foster care, adoption is a fairly easy process. Good luck!
August 22nd, 2009 at 4:30 am
Nah! Babies are given away for free…by the boat-loads!!
August 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
The laws state the opposite actually. It is illegal to pay for the child. It is not illegal however to pay the lawyers fees, the agency fees, the license fees and the other costs associated with the performance of an adoption. The money goes to agencies and workers, not to the birth families.
In foster care adoptions however most, if not all, of the fees are paid for by the State/Province and the adoptive families pay nothing.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:10 am
The fees you incur are based on how you adopt. If you go through an adoption agency, it can cost several thousands of dollars in addition to legal fees and compensation (health care, food, shelter, clothing, etc).
Adoptions between family members (or step-parents) will generally require a lawyer (family law), but don’t tend to have many other fees. (Possibly a home study depending on the state’s laws/procedures.)
The terms of independent adoptions can vary. A lawyer is generally needed to represent the interest of the birth parents and another for the interest of the adoptive parents. Compensation (health care, maternity clothing, shelter, food, etc.) can vary from zero to complete cost depending on the particular agreement.
Fostercare adoptions tend to be very inexpensive and, in almost every case I’ve heard of, actually free. You have to go through a process and background screening to become a foster parent and it can be more difficult to get an infant that way (most come from “safe surrender” points though there are sometimes cases of neglect/abuse).
I’m doing an independent adoption across state lines to a married couple I met through my partner. We’re still working on the legal stuff, but they’re going to cover the midwife’s fee if Medicaid doesn’t cover it. It’d be nice if I had some “blow money” but that’s against the law in both states. (We both live on the border of our states, so we’re less than 30 minutes away.)
August 29th, 2009 at 7:25 am
In some states, the state mandates the amount of fees to charge. In most states it’s up to the agency or lawyer to decide how much they charge.
Picture this common scenario - a mother has just given birth, she’s crying and distraught because she just signed the surrender papers and leaves the hospital without her baby - now down the hall in another room, or out in the parking lot, adopters are there with a social worker or lawyer for the exchange (on this the “placement day”). Adopters hand over thousands of dollars in the form of cash or a cashier’s check to the social worker or the lawyer, (most don’t accept personal checks) in return they are handed a newborn to take home.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
my daughter was adopted and they had to pay my hospital bill and the lawyer