What is the legal process?
Once your family has been chosen and the type of adoption you wish for is in place, we will be in contact with you periodically (Depending on the type of adoption you choose, you may have contact with us and or the adoptive parents regularly while waiting for your due date). You will notify us when you go in to labor. While at the hospital, one of our staff members will visit you at a convenient time (We will call first, of course). You will sign paperwork that will allow the adoptive parents to leave the hospital with the baby. A couple of weeks later, a court hearing will be scheduled. You will attend this court hearing with someone from our agency to give your consent to the adoption before a judge. The birth father may also attend this hearing and give his consent. However, the birth father may choose to sign off his rights before court and he does not need to attend. The birth father may not voluntarily do either of these things and we will then take other measures to properly ser
