What alternatives for a paid search are there?
Some agencies require months of writing letters through their office, and/or that both parties spend x-number of hours in therapy, at the expense of the parties who want a reunion. The caseworker then decides IF and when a reunion will actually take place. Others choose to hire unlicensed individuals, organizations, or a Private Investigator without adoption search experience. All of them want to be paid up-front. They offer no contractual guarantees of success, or that there will not be “additional costs.” Nor do they guarantee in a written contract that the search will be completed. Few of those search results are fruitful. In spite of all that, when a search becomes a priority, or when frustration and stress propel an individual to do something, that something frequently becomes very expensive and more frustrating for the reasons stated above. For those who want guarantees of a fixed search fee without any “additional costs” and a fee that is payable only AFTER a search is successfu
