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What a blessing! We had a similar situation last fall, a customer knew of a woman who was interested in placing her baby. In the end she chose to parent, but it got us moving in the right direction. We have several friends who are lawyers, one who has done a pro bono adoption, one who has adopted, and a couple who don't even remember studying family law. I hinted around to the friend with the pro bono experience and he told me that I would be better off in the end paying someone whose everyday job is adoption. This is far too serious a matter to be bargain hunting. Even the lawyer who had adopted paid an actual adoption lawyer to make sure everything was done correctly.
We live in Dallas and we got lots of input on who to call. A couple of names kept coming up. If you call around to various agencies you can ask them what lawyer they use to finalize. Most of the agengies around here use the same person.
One thing you can shop around for is home studies. We just used the social worker that works with the laywer and later found out that she is probably the most reasonably priced in town. Some people pay more than 3xs what we paid. And the poor thing has really earned her money. Since we didn't get the placement and a couple other situations have come up that I have questions about, I have called her several times and she's always answered my questions and been my biggest advocate.
Hope this helps,
Amber
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