In the private adoption arena, services vary drastically depending on each provider. It is important to note that it is the role of an attorney to oversee and attend to the legal aspects involving adoption. One attorney may simply handle the legal filing of adoption paperwork and represent the adoptive family in court. Another attorney may obtain signatures from the birthparents on relinquishment documentation. While a third attorney may assist birthparents and adoptive couples in meeting and creating a match for the purpose of placing a child for adoption and subsequently filing the necessary adoption paperwork with the court.
Facilitators tend to network with attorneys, birthparents and adoptive families.
Their networking helps bring birthparents and adoptive families together for the purpose of the birthparent placing a child with a family for adoption. In the case of private adoption, only a birthparent is able to place a child for the purpose of adoption. In their matchmaking endeavors, facilitators obtain information from both birthparents and adoptive families which may be shared with each party for the purpose of encouraging a match between the parties. Comparison of Costs It is literally impossible to quote costs or offer guidelines for costs in the area of adoption. In most instances throughout the United States, public and private religious social service agencies tend to be the most inexpensively priced.