Congratulation on your efforts to increase your family. It is not an easy task, but it is worth the effort.
At last, you will have reasons to be happy once again. This post is to explain what a post-adoption agreement means, adoption agreement examples, and templates, and to answer your question ” do parents have to agree to the adoption?”
Let’s get started.
A Post-Adoption agreement, also known as PACA, is a contract between the adoptive family and the birth parent, which allows communication between both families, and the child.
The importance of a post-adoption agreement is to protect the rights of both the birth families and birth families. And if you are planning to adopt or give up your child for adoption, then this post is for you.
Certainly, a post-adoption agreement is never a custody agreement or another way of cooperating between the adoptive family and the birth family.
It is just a way to maintain contact through pictures, calls, letters, or even visits.
The main purpose of the post-adoption contact agreement(PACA) is to protect the interest of the adopted child during either open adoption or semi-open adoption.
As you both agree on this, you agree to maintain the frequency of the contact or any type of communication for a stipulated period as the child grows.
Many birth parents may prefer not to have any contact with their child after adoption, and so they choose a closed adoption.
But these days, birth parents prefer to know whoever adopts their child and that’s why they go for open or semi-open adoption.
If you are planning to adopt a child and seeking to know how to draft a perfect post-adoption agreement, then I believe you also know the benefits.
There are many reasons to have a post-adoption agreement. It will help you and the adoptive family be on the same page.
The agreement will also prevent troubles that may come from adoptive parents after the adoption.
It is also clear that the agreement provides the birth family with the encouragement to move forward with their adoption plan
The birth family is also reassured of their right to receive information about their child, and that they have chosen the best family for their child.
Post-adoption agreements can benefit the birth family in so many ways.
One of the greatest benefits is that they are being reassured that they are doing their best as they give up their child for adoption.
It is not always easy for adoptive mothers when they decide to give up their child for adoption.
Knowing that they still have a chance to contact the child as he/she grows is a morale boost for them.
Another thing that boosts the birth mothers’ joy about PACA is that they are sure that they made the right choice for adoptive parents for their children.
Through communication and contact agreed upon, they are reassured daily.
As an adoptive parent, the contact agreements help you to raise your adopted child.
The reason is that as the child grows, he/she may have questions about their birth, also, you may need information about the family’s Medical history.
The post-adoption agreement will help you get the information needed. It will also help you and the birth family build a strong, healthy, and lasting relationship.
Even the adopted child benefits from this post-adoption agreement and one of the main benefits is that they get quick answers to the questions about their birth, birth parents, and adoption.
Certainly, it is okay and important for any adopted child to ask questions about their birth, and adoption.
By putting the contact agreement in place, the birth parents and the adoptive parents are all of the same interest to help the adopted children can get the information whenever it’s needed.
For the child, having the opportunity to get information about their background, and heritage helps them build great confidence.
Drafting a good post-adoption agreement will depend upon your personal preferences and that of the other person involved.
Note that a post-adoption agreement is not a custody agreement as I mentioned earlier, because every birth mother relinquished her right after adoption.
The contact agreement is just to maintain the communication levels and not a parenting agreement.
It helps to set boundaries about your contact with the other party in the adoption.
The agreement defined how and when the adoptive family will contact the birth mom and the birth mother also.
As you drift the draft the post-adoption contact agreement, it is important to include everything that interests you.
The reason is that it is your contact agreement, so you need to tailor it to suit your adoption vision.
Nobody should tell you what to include and what not to in the contact agreement. Some people are ready to put down all their concerns while others don’t.
Check out the list below to know what to include or not.
Enforcement of contact agreements is always a long process, and it is designed to bring two parties to a solution without going to court.
It begins when one of you sent a letter to the other stating the reasons to start the enforcement process.
If the issues are not solved through this medium, the child will be taken to a psychologist, who checks if enforcement will help the child or not.
If at last, the problem persists, the both of you must then attend two “meditation sessions” with a licensed mediator.
Both of you also have the right to petition the result if the edition fails.
Drafting the adoption contact agreement is very important, however, they are not easy to draft, alter, or endorsed.
You can contact your adoption attorney for help if need be.
Now you know what a post-adoption agreement means, how to draft it, and its importance.
Read this post carefully so you will know all you should about drafting a good PACA.
Thanks.
From Murphyaik.
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