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Posted below are links to several articles by Sandra Glahn on the issues of infertility and adoption. Sandra knows from personal experience how difficult infertility can be; she endured a decade of infertility treatment that included multiple pregnancy losses, three failed adoptions, and an ectopic pregnancy. She quotes Alice Domar, Ph.D., director of the Mind/Body Center for Women’s Health in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School: “The depression and anxiety experienced by infertile women are equivalent to that in women suffering from a terminal illness.”
- Positive Adoption Language
- Infertility: Myths and Facts
- A Heart's Desire: Encouragement for Couples Facing Infertility
- Infertility Tries Patients' Patience
- Facing the No-Baby Blues
is it possible to adopt a child who's undergone simulation of birth in order to rectify the same? if yes, how?
ReplyDeleteIris,
ReplyDeleteRA 8552 provided for the procedure for the rectification of simulation of birth. However the grace period for filing the petition for rectification ended in 2003. There are pending bills in the Senate seeking to extend this grace period up to 2015, I think.
Can you kindly supply the range of legal fees and other expenses involve in the whole adoption process? thanks and God bless, Atty.
ReplyDelete[1] Professional fee or retainer's fee of the lawyer: This will depend on whether your petition will be filed in Metro Manila or in the province. If filed here in Metro Manila and you retain a lawyer from here, the standard lawyer's fee is 50 thousand pesos. If your petition will be filed in the province and you get a lawyer from that province, the lawyer's fee will be lower.
ReplyDeleteIf your petition will be filed in the province and you retain a lawyer from Metro Manila or another province, you will have to shoulder the lawyer's transportation expenses.
[2] Appearance fee of the lawyer per hearing; if the petition is filed here in Metro Manila and you get a lawyer from here, standard appearance fee is from two to three thousand pesos per hearing (even if the hearing is reset or postponed).
[3] Publication fee: As I discussed in this post, the fee will depend on which newspaper is chosen in the raffle. Major publications charge as high as fifty thousand pesos.
[4] Filing fee or docket fee: Please check with the Supreme Court website or consult the OCC (Office of the Clerk of Court). Fee is higher if the petitioner is a foreigner.
[5] Incidental fees like transcripts of stenographic notes, service of summons, etc.