What is an Adoption Facilitator and what is their role in an adoption?
By definition an adoption facilitator is someone that helps facilitate adoptions and that is neither an adoption attorney nor an agency. As defined by the State of California Family Code commencing with Chapter 1.5, Section 8623: Adoption facilitators may “Advertise for the purpose of soliciting parties to an adoption or locating children for an adoption or acting as an intermediary between the parties to an adoption.” Unfortunately, this definition can mean a lot of different things to different people. If you are going to use a facilitator you should understand what their role should be. First and most important you will absolutely need an adoption attorney and/or an agency. A facilitator should never try to supplement or replace either of these adoption professionals. So if facilitators don t do the legal work what is our primary purpose? Facilitators should primarily focus on helping couples to locate potential birth parents. Years ago birth parents never met or selected adopting c
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