2 Reasons To Hire A Family Lawyer When Looking To Adopt
by Diana Butler
Pretty much any type of adoption process that you attempt to initiate is going to be extremely complicated and potentially fraught with risks, which is why it is very important to hire a family lawyer to help you out with the entire process. Listed below are two reasons to hire a family lawyer when looking to adopt.
Prevent You From Falling Victim To Adoption Scams
One of the biggest reasons to hire a family lawyer looking to adopt is to prevent you from falling victim to adoption scams. Sadly, there are several types of adoption scams that are actually fairly common and are designed to prey on those individuals that are desperate to have a child in their lives.
One of the most common types of adoption scams is one where you are attempting to adopt a child from a foreign adoption agency that simply disappears once you have provided them with the money to initiate the adoption process. Another common adoption scam is one where you enter into a private adoption agreement with an individual where you will pay a certain amount of the individual's living expenses and medical expenses in exchange for the child, but that individual has promised the child to multiple individuals in order to collect as much money as possible and may not even be pregnant or actually allow someone to adopt the child.
In the case of a foreign adoption agency scam, a family lawyer can protect you by actually investigating the adoption agency in order to see if they have been in business for a decent amount of time and if there are any complaints about the agency that would raise any red flags about them being legitimate. As for the private adoption scam, the family lawyer can utilize private investigators and other resources to ensure that the individual is not promising the child to multiple people or still has advertisements out offering to enter into a private adoption agreement after having already entered into one with you.
Provide Protection From A Failed Adoption
Another reason to hire a family lawyer when looking to adopt is that they can provide you with protection from a failed adoption. For example, if you enter into a private adoption agreement with someone and end up paying for all of their medical bills and living expenses in exchange for the child, you could potentially run into a situation where the individual chooses to keep the child and you lose all of the money that you spent.
In that situation, a family lawyer can step in before you provide any money to the pregnant individual and create a contract stating that you are only providing this money because you intend to adopt a child. Once that contract is in place, if the individual chooses to keep the child, you will be able to use that contract to sue the individual in order to get compensated for all the money that you gave that person over the course of her pregnancy.
Make an appointment with your local family lawyer or family law firm, like Roderic H. Slayton, PC, to discuss what they may be able to do to assist you with an upcoming adoption or if you are considering adopting a child. Preventing you from falling victim to adoption scams and providing protection from a failed adoption are just two of the many reasons to consider hiring a family lawyer when looking to adopt.
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