Each state has its own criminal statutes and definitions of what constitutes fraud. At the very least, it not right to take money from prospective adoptive parents without intending to give up the baby for adoption, or more correctly, make an adoption plan for the baby. Some states like Indiana, make it a FELONY for a woman pretending […]
No. Sometimes a birth mother will contact a national adoption agency or local adoption agency because the agency has advised the birth mother not to work with an adoption attorney or because the adoption agency has a slick website. At times, an expectant mother or birth mother will find that the adoption agency is too […]
In many states, it is not possible, but it depends on the state in which the adoption attorney or adoption agency files the adoption and what the birth mother signed allowing the child to be placed for adoption. If the birth mother signed a consent to adoption in Indiana, Indiana law does not give a […]