Illinois Adoption Laws Page4

Adoption Laws in Illinois Page4

Adoption expenses regulation

Expenses allowed for birth parent : Statute : Statute: 720 ILCS 525/4; 4.1

• Required and necessary attorney fees.
• Common expenses like the living expenses as per the statute, and as per the requirements.
• Required and necessary medical as well as the hospital charges.

Expenses not allowed for birth parent : Statute : 720 ILCS 525/4.1(a)

• Expenses like living can't be more than of 30 days after the child birth.

Expenses allowed for adoption arrangment : Statute: 720 ILCS 525/1

• Nobody individually or an organization can request or take money as a compensation for child placement, except the authorized child placing agency.

Expenses allowed for child relinquishment : Statute: 720 ILCS 525/4.1(d)

• Petitioners don't have right to ask reimbursement in case the birth parents decided to put a child for adoption.
• It is not mandatory to include the living expenses by the birth parents while placing the child for adoption.

Fees allowed for charges by agency or department : Statute: 720 ILCS 525/2

• Noone individually can pay or compensate to a person or any of the child placing organization, except the legal child welfare organizations.

Expenses accounting court requirment : Statute: 720 ILCS 525/4.1(e); 750 ILCS 50/14(a)

• Every side or a party in the process of the adoption have to file affidavit of the hospital charges, counseling and the legal fees.
• Petitioners have to file for the living expenses maid by the natural parents while accounting, but the receipts are necessary.