With all three of our adoptions we had separate representation for our children's Birth Moms. To make sure there was NO CHANCE for any problems or mistakes. It wasn't that expensive to do. A retainer fee was all we had for one of them. The other one went slightly over & the other went quite abit over but only because he, the BMom's attorney, didn't know what he was doing & our atorney had to tell him what to do!
Deb