Improper inducement prohibited.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 8

(a) (1) The placement of a child for adoption; (2) The consent of a parent, a legal custodian, individual, or agency to the adoption of a child; (3) The relinquishment of a child to a competent authority, or to an agency or person as defined in 22 CFR 96.2, for the purpose of adoption; or (4) The performance by the child's parent or parents of any act that makes the child a Convention adoptee. (b) (1) The services of an adoption service provider in connection with an adoption; (2) Expenses incurred in locating a child for adoption; (3) Medical, hospital, nursing, pharmaceutical, travel, or other similar expenses incurred by a mother or her child in connection with the birth or any illness of the child; (4) Counseling services for a parent or a child for a reasonable time before and after the child's placement for adoption; (5) Expenses, in an amount commensurate with the living standards in the country of the child's habitual residence, for the care of the birth mother while pregnant and immediately following the birth of the child; (6) Expenses incurred in obtaining the home study; (7) Expenses incurred in obtaining the reports on the child as described in 8 CFR 204.313(d)(3) and (4); (8) Legal services, court costs, and travel or other administrative expenses connected with an adoption, including any legal services performed for a parent who consents to the adoption of a child or relinquishes the child to an agency; and (9) Any other service the payment for which the office

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 8:§ 204.304