[jp4ga]

I am so past ticked off right now. We received an itemized bill in the mail from our adoption agency outlining fees for Sept, Oct, and Nov. The fees were phone calls from the bmom. And mailing fees for the letters and photos we have sent them.

The bmom calls 3-4 times a week wanting our phone numbers, address, email address and MORE letters and pictures. The agreement is currently 4 contacts per year, currently we have maintained contact 1 time per month. As of today that stops. We are being charged an average of $5.00 per phone call, which is around 100 per month. I see no reason why we should have to pay for calls she makes.

We also are being charged $6.00 to mail a letter. I send the letters and photos with postage applied, all they have to do is address the letter and put it in the mailbox. Why are they charging 6.00 per letter.

They have also indicated that she needs more counseling, and we should "step up" and pay for this. I agree she needs counseling, but we already paid for this, we are currently in debt 6000 to pay for her attorney, and now we are getting contact bills from the agency which will be ongoing.

I am really thinking about going to court to get this adoption closed. That way we won't have to pay for the contact fees. I would still mail stuff and would be willing to give her an email address so she could send updates. But having to pay the middle man is insane. Has anyone else heard of this, or been through this?

One more reason to throughly investigate your adoption agency prior to signing on the dotted line. Remember to ask questions about what happens if the court appoints you as the third party point of contact? We never saw this coming.
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[OurLifesJourney]

I have not heard nor read of this, but I will definitely look through our papers to read any fine print. We get itemized statements for our escrow with the agency; however, we are only into our third month. I was under the impression that once you finalized and your bills were settled that you were no longer indebted to them for anything financially.

Would you mind pm'ing your agency name to me?

Nikki

[aclee]

Providing the contact to forward letters and pictures should have been included in your agency fees. Are they charging because you are sending more than the number agreed on?

It seems like anyone can rack up your bills with your attny or agency. Our agency here in MA called our attny in MO, and asked the attny in MO request court docs (rather than just requesting them on their own) and had the MO attny overnight them back to MA. Because they had messed up. Ended up adding $500 to our attny bill, to have the attny deal with all that, when we were already paying the MA agency to deal with it. If it's OUR money, how come everyone else gets to spend it!!!

I would call and talk to the agency about this. This will go on the rest of your life? A bill a few times a year to forward the pictures etc? That's insane.