Author: Abhishek Agarwal
Even for noble works like providing home to the homeless children that is adoption, there is a good amount of money involved. For some families, this also becomes a major issue, as they wish to give a permanent home to the child in need, but they can't afford the adoption fees.
Adoption fee is a heavy and unavoidable price tag on happiness. The adoption fees is determined on the following basis:
1. The adoption fee depends on the country form where you adopt the child
2. It also depends on where the child is going t move after adoption.
3. Foreign adoption often involves very high fees.
4. In several adoption programs, the fee begins with the application money.
5. This is the one-time fee that is a must to be paid while the submission of the application.
6. In almost all adoptions, home study is a must. There you are made to pay the fee for home study.
7. The fees of adoption vary among the different agencies & nations.
8. These procedural fees are always subject to change with out any notice.
9. All this procedure of application and home study also involves a major chunk of the government processing costs that is of course an all together separate expense for the adoptive family.
10. Without paying all these procedural fees, the adoptive parents cannot adopt the child.
11. Henceforth, the family also needs to pay the fees for the updated visits of home study.
12. In case the adoptive parents live at a good distance from the house of the social worker, they must also pay some extra fees on every visit of home study.
13. Depending on certain circumstances, the adoptive family has to be responsible for the basic necessities of the social worker like the hourly rate, gas & hotel.
14. Another fees payable is the post adoption fees.
15. The clients also must pay some other related fees that are listed below:
a. The fee for using the foreign programs & other agencies,
b. The fee of the court appearance of the social worker
c. Assistance with documents
d. Legal fees
e. Travel fees
f. Medical fees
16. The adoptive parents must also pay the entire legal fees, administrative fees, medical, travel, and any all other expenses that arise in the adoption process.
17. Usually these fees arise in cases of the International adoption.
18. In North America, the families are able to adopt via private & public adoption agencies for little or just zero cost.
19. Make sure that you enquire about the adoption fees with an agency and / or adoption workers prior to entering the procedure.
20. When going for International adoption, be prepared for a heavy monetary expense.
21. Usually, in cases of international adoption people face shocking & unexpected surprises in terms of the legal issues of the nation's you are adopting from rules & regulations.
22. While the fees levied on adoption can be outrageous at times, but the individuals who are indeed desperate to have a child, money shouldn't be an issue.
23. In order to manage the adoption fees people also opt to make second mortgages on the homes, or cash on the retirement savings and / or go for some personal loans so as to insure that they have quite sufficient funds for paying the fees for adoption.
24. In such cases one can witness a perfect example of money being as meaningless as meaningful. While with out having substantial amount of savings in the bank account, applying for adoption from foreign is pointless, money stands no comparison as regards to the happiness & joy of having a child at home.
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