Your adoptive parents will pay for an attorney. This is part of their overall adoption budget.

You may change your mind at any time prior to signing consent papers. See Consent to Adoption After papers are signed, in private adoptions, you have 30 calendar days after signing the consent to change your mind. However, if you signed a Waiver of the Right to Revoke Consent in

Even if your baby has already been born, it is not too late to choose adoption. You can still make an adoption plan. Your baby will not go to foster care, as long as you have an adoption plan in place. With an adoption plan, you can choose to place

Absolutely. You and you alone get to decide which adoptive parents will be best for your baby. To do this, you would get to know them. You can ask them questions about their background, their faith, their family rituals. You can tell them about the way you were raised. These

No. Your baby will go home with the adoptive parents you choose.

Being pregnant and considering adoption is scary and overwhelming. Birth mothers have rights and options. Your lawyer will explain your rights and options to you. Agency or independent? For example, you can choose an agency adoption, or an independent (private) adoption. In a private adoption, you will get to select

The rights of the baby’s father is dependent on several factors. If You Are Married In general, in California, if you are married to the father within 300 days of baby’s birth, and he objects, the only way the adoption can take place is if his parental rights are terminated.