Maine's Laws on Living Expenses

Maine

1. • Actual cost of legal services related to consent
2. • Prenatal and postnatal counseling
3. • Prenatal, postnatal, and birthing medical costs for the mother
4. • Transportation to the services that are permitted
5. • Foster care for the child
6. • Reasonable living expenses for the birth mother and the child
7. • Counseling and legal fees for the birth father
8. • Fees to the placing agency

Birth Parent Expenses Not Allowed Statute: Tit.18-A, § 9-306(c) 

Other expenses or payments to the birth parents are not authorized.

 Not addressed in statutes reviewed

 Payments for allowable expenses may not be contingent upon any future decision a birth parent may make pertaining to the child.

1. • The fee for filing an adoption petition is $50.
2. • A fee is charged for the required State and Federal criminal history record check.

1. • The petitioner shall file a full accounting of all disbursements made or agreed to be made in connection with the adoption.
2. • The accounting must be signed under penalty of perjury and itemized.

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