I am trying to adopt my wife's child and she is adopting mine. We Paid the money, got the forms and went in to file. The lady at the probate office looked at the 4 page "petition for adoption" and said "that's it? We usually get a thick stack of paper when attorneys turn this in. We can't NOT accept these but you are required to know all that an attorney
knows and turn in the right forms and inform us what you need us to do with the forms at the correct times. I can tell you right now that you do not have everything you need. We'll take it if you want us too.
Then she slipped me a form on how to contact attorneys. "They are not allowed to tell us which forms to turn in. The people at myadoptionforms.com told us we need to ask the people at the court. No one has this information except the lawyers.
This is starting to sound like a scam. I tried to get my "guaranteed" money back but they said I would need to get a letter from the probate office that they refused my forms. I can't get that letter because technically they CAN'T refuse the forms but I would have to pay $100 to file and they forms would sit there until I told them what to do next.
Nothing is automatic.
I sent an email to the address provided a couple of times and never heard back from them. This is a weak and
dishonest company. I would never recommend using this company.
I found an attorney who only does adoptions and he charges $850 for everything. After paying $320 to this company and then paying for the $100 filing fee and the service fee and the court fees etc. It all adds up. The $850 is
sounding much better. I have an actual attorney who can give me advice and will help us get everything we need.
He said he has NEVER once seen a do-it-yourself package work in the state of Oregon.
Take my advice. Get an attorney.
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