We are a childless couple and have a chance to obtain an infant if we pay lots of money upfront. Is it legal?


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Illegal Adoption Adoption Law

We are a childless couple and have a chance to obtain an infant if we pay lots of money upfront. Is it legal?

This is something you had better get good legal advice on from a lawyer who is not otherwise involved with the birth mother.

Having a short supply of healthy newborns ready to be placed for adoption, adopting parents are especially vulnerable to offers to buy a “black-market baby” – for an exorbitant sum of money. Paying large sums of money is unnecessary, since in most states adopting parents pay only the mother’s medical expenses, counseling and legal costs; if done improperly, it may be a crime and create an illegal placement.

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