The adoptive parents or agency can pay for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in connection with the adoption or related to the health and welfare of the baby. These expenses may include costs for prenatal and post partum medical care, infant medical care, counseling fees and legal fees. In addition the court may approve living expenses and any other costs the court finds reasonable and necessary to assure the health and welfare of the unborn child; however the court must approve payments of this type that exceed $1,000.

Yes, a teen/woman has the right to consent to the adoption of her child regardless of her age. The minor’s parents do not have to consent to the adoption.

The legal documents cannot be signed before the baby is 72 hours old, and the parents can sign any time after that. A notary and/or two witnesses over the age of 18 sign the papers at the same time. She does not have to go to court.