.... PROSPECTIVE ADOPTIVE PARENTS - HOW TO PROCEED 

• Before you contact me, please read this entire document, including all links (underlined words).

• AdoptLink clients are those who sign the AdoptLink Agreement and pay the $4800.00 fee upfront. AdoptLink clients are always given first consideration.

• If you are not an AdoptLink client, you are a Prospective Client.  If you, as a Prospective Client, fully understand and agree to the terms and conditions herein, I will send your your profile booklet with photos to the agency, attorney, or facilitator assisting the individual expectant mother/s identified on the AdoptLink grid with code names without you having paying the AdoptLink $4800.00 fee first. Your profile booklet will be presented to the mother only if she does not select an AdoptLink client first, or if she asks to see more profiles.  If the mother does not review your profile booklet, the agency or attorney will keep it on file for other adoption situations.  With situations where an agency, attorney, or other facilitator is not involved, I will personally send your profile booklet to the mother.
  

• If you do not retain AdoptLink upfront, but want to be presented as Prospective Client, I will submit your profile booklet upon receipt of the $15.00 USD processing fee (per mother). The presentation fee is not refundable unless the mother is already matched or otherwise unavailable when I submit your profile booklet for consideration.  Please send $15.00 USD via PayPal (a secure and free service) www.paypal.com for each presentation. PayPal immediately notifies me when you send the payment; I will e-mail you a receipt of payment and confirm that I sent your profile booklet.  Please submit cash funds from your bank account or use your PayPal balance.  I do not have a Premier account and cannot accept payments funded with credit or debit cards, and I don't accept e-checks.  If you don't know how to send funds from a PayPal balance, please contact PayPal for instructions: www.paypal.com, 402-952-8899, 866-837-1863 PayPal customer service. If you are a new PayPal user, it takes 2-3 days to verify your checking account. In the interim, I  will submit your profile booklet so you don't miss an opportunity to be considered.
  

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• Select Personal
• Select Payment Owed (Do not select Payment for Services or any other option)
• Select Instant Transfer
• Type the mother's code name, and your names and phone numbers in the subject line and/or in the message field of each payment you submit so I can credit the payment properly.

• Your submission of a profile booklet with photos to AdoptLink indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions herein, and of the terms and conditions stated in the AdoptLink Agreement. Print the entire AdoptLink Agreement, complete it, and sign, and send it to AdoptLink with your presentation materials.  Do not submit $4800 unless you want to retain AdoptLink upfront to receive the services and opportunities available to AdoptLink clients.

• If a mother selects/accepts you to adopt her baby, or if you are accepted by an agency, attorney, or facilitator, or receive a child as a result of my efforts on your behalf (submitting profile booklet, homestudy report, etc., and providing you with background and medical information when available, etc.), you must immediately submit the AdoptLink $4800 fee.  
  

• Complete the AdoptLink application and send it as a Word.doc file attachment (unsigned) to AdoptLink via e-mail. Click on the AdoptLink application link that matches your lifestyle/marital situation: Wife and Husband   Single   Same-gender Couple   Heterosexual Couple (not married) .

• Fax or e-mail AdoptLink a complete copy of your current, completed, and approved, signed homestudy report (if you have one) and all updates, a copy of the agency or social worker license, copy of FBI, police, and Child Abuse Index reports, copy of marriage license,  Criminal Statement Record (signed) if you have ever been convicted of a crime, for me, the managing adoption agency and/or adoption attorney to review.  These documents are not routinely shown to parent/s and will not be shown to them without your prior written approval unless state law permits or requires otherwise. 

• E-mail AdoptLink a color photo identification (valid/current driver's license and passport) of each adoptive parent.

• Your profile booklet may not include your last name, your attorney/agency/counselor name, any phone numbers, addresses, or any other identifying or contact information. If your profile contains any of this information, it will not be submitted for consideration, nor will it be returned to you.

• If you don't have a profile booklet and/or don't know how to write one, ask me to send you samples.

• If you can't e-mail your files, copy the Word .doc file document of your profile booklet with photos, and AdoptLink Introduction form onto a CD and send it to me.  Please do not scan each page and send me the images of the pages of your booklet as I must be able to edit the document text and images.

• It is understood that your expectation/desire/hope is to be accepted by any mother you ask to be presented to. Please discuss all information concerning the situation with your spouse (if you are married) and verify that both of you want to be accepted by the mother before asking to be presented. Please be 100% sure that you and your spouse (if you are married) are both prepared to proceed immediately if the mother accepts you.  It is awkward and sad to tell a mother that the family she accepted to adopt her baby is not available. It is very unfair and discouraging for her as well and may result in her looking elsewhere for services, leaving the adoption professional with an uncompensated loss of time and income.
  

• Please ensure that you are financially prepared to pay AdoptLink and other outlined professional fees, in full, upon the being accepted. Some PAPs have declared their readiness, then when it comes right down to it, funds are not immediately available, and the adoption planning cannot proceed.  Some families are never able to get the funds together.  This is not fair to the mother who accepted you to adopt her baby, nor to the professionals who presented you to the her on a trusting and gratis basis.
  

• SECURITY DEPOSIT.  If the mother wants to speak with you or meet you after reviewing your profile booklet and color photos, you must make a $4800.00 AdoptLink security deposit in full and submit an initialed, signed, and dated AdoptLink Agreement before having access to her or her representative.  If a mother, agency, attorney, or facilitator accepts you and you accept the match, or if you receive a child as a result of my efforts on your behalf (submitting profile booklet, homestudy report, etc., and providing you with background and medical information when available, etc.), the $4800.00 facilitation fee is considered earned and is not refundable.   

• REFUND.  If you and the mother do not mutually match within 72 hours of my receipt of your signed agreement and fee, I will refund the fee per the terms of the AdoptLink Agreement. I am willing to be flexible concerning the 72-hour period; we can discuss this. Or you can elect to remain in the service of AdoptLink as described in the  AdoptLink Agreement.

• TRUTH IN INFORMATION.  AdoptLink may obtain information about adoption situations from the mother/father or the referring adoption professional assisting a mother concerning, but not limited to, medical, mental, psychological, emotional, IQ, and social history, use of drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol before and during pregnancy, financial status or needs, insurance coverage, etc.; identity, medical, mental, psychological, motional, IQ, and social history, and whereabouts of alleged legal, and/or presumed father/s, etc.

AdoptLink does not perform investigative services and does not corroborate or guarantee the veracity of any information received.

AdoptLink cannot and does not guarantee that any circumstances whatsoever surrounding any adoption plan will remain the same during any time in the period of the adoption plan.

• ADOPTION FACILITATION.   AdoptLink is not a private or public licensed adoption agency, licensed psychotherapist or counselor, attorney, law firm, adoption service provider (ASP), investigator, nor a social worker. AdoptLink does not "place" children for adoption, the mother or licensed adoption agency place children for adoption. AdoptLink is not licensed to provide legal or therapeutic services and does not offer or provide services in these or other capacities described in this paragraph.

• NO GUARANTEE.  AdoptLink makes no representation as to whether or not potential adoption situations will be available to present to the clients in any exact given time frame, that clients will be considered or accepted by a mother/agency/attorney, etc, nor that any proposed adoption plan will be entered into or complete successfully. Clients understand that AdoptLink does not give any guarantee as to the final outcome of any given adoption plan.
  

AdoptLink cannot and does not guarantee the physical, emotional, mental, or any condition of any child or children or birthparent/s or their families involved in any adoption.

AdoptLink does not "select" or "match" the Client for the mother nor the mother for the Client. The parents of the child and the Clients must voluntarily and mutually accept each other for the purpose of pursuing and completing an adoption. Or, an adoption agency representative, attorney or her representative may select/accept an adoptive family if the mother authorizes the adoption agency to do so.  

• Call me at 408-353-4522 to discuss the published information concerning the adoption situations you are interested in.

• Please click on the AdoptLink application link that matches your lifestyle/marital situation. Wife and Husband  Single  Same-gender Couple Heterosexual Couple (not married) .

• Print this entire document, complete and sign it, and send it along with a signed  AdoptLink Agreement, AdoptLink application, and all other documents requested within this document, to AdoptLink. Submission via e-mail and fax is preferred.
  

• NOTIFICATION.  I will call and e-mail the family the mother/attorney/agency selects/accepts. Unfortunately, due to volume, it is not always possible for me to contact everyone individually who submitted a profile to any mother but was not selected.  I will, however, publish a status and updates on the grid. This will serve as notification to all applicants.  Next, I transfer the information from the grid onto the status page. Click here for the status of cases previously posted on the AdoptLink grid.  This link is accessible in the Instructions section on the grid, within the grid, and at the bottom of the page as well.  A link to the status page is also on every e-mail I send.   I am aware that this notification approach lacks the personal touch, but I work alone (no staff) and until I can find a better solution (constructive and practical suggestions are invited), this is my notification process.

I look forward to receiving your presentation package ASAP!

Thank you for your continued interest in Children in Need of Adoption.

I hope you will find that AdoptLink meets your needs and will retain the service to assist you in your quest to adopt.

Please always include your name and all your phone numbers, and the state you reside in, on each e-mail.

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I, the undersigned, fully understand and agree to all terms and conditions stated herein.

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