Matching Services.
Private Adoption matching services require an application. To best serve our waiting families we will only accept a limited number of applications.
We ARE NOT accepting Applications for Matching Services at this time.
Please continue to monitor our website to see when we resume accepting applications for new families who desire to be matched with an expectant mother.
We are grateful for your interest in our office and our hope and prayer is that we can have the opportunity to match everyone who is interested in working with Odom-Saska Adoptions, LLC.
Application for Matching Services
* PLEASE NOTE: This webpage is for families seeking Matching Services from our office. “Matching Services” means that we attempt to match an adoptive family with an expectant mother for a PRIVATE ADOPTION.
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A MATCH with an expectant mother, then you do not need to submit an Application for Matching Services! Please call either the West Monroe or Baton Rouge office for an appointment now.
How to submit an Application for Matching Services:
Complete Application
If we have indicted above that we accepting new applications, click below to Download or Print the application. Complete the application, providing all of your adoption preferences.
Email Application
Upload or Scan the completed application and email it to us along with a recent picture of your family and your current home study (if available).
Pay Application Fee
Submit payment for application fee via LawPay. (If paid with e-check the fee is $1,500.00, if paid with credit card the fee is $1,544.25) **Applications are considered submitted only after this requisite fee has bee paid.
Meet with Us
After we review your application and application fee, we will schedule your appointment with Mrs. Odom or Mrs. Saska. This meeting will cover the adoption process, our services, your profile book, and opportunities to be Featured on this website.
We appreciate that you may have a million questions as you begin your adoption journey and we are excited to address all of them (even some you haven’t thought of) in the informational meeting. Please understand that because of the large number of prospective applicants interested in matching services we are unable to respond to each and every inquiry prior to submission of the application/fee and scheduling of the informational meeting. Please be sure to review the FAQs section of the website (below) where we have tried to address most common frequently asked preliminary questions. Thank you for your understanding and interest in our office.
FAQs
What does the application fee cover?
Your application fee will cover an hour-long informational meeting either via video application or in person with Mrs. Odom or Mrs. Saska, who will discuss with you the following: (1) make recommendations on how to prepare your prospective parent profile book, (2) offer suggestions on promotion/advertising of your interest in adopting through the use of our website, other social-media, and SEO efforts, (3) provide guidance and legal information on private advertising, (4) posting of your photo with limited bio on our website as one of our “Featured Prospective Adoptive Parent(s)”, and lastly (5) share the efforts we will take in matching you with a birth mom that meets the criteria that you request in your application, presenting in person or mailing your profile to various birth moms for consideration, all in the hope to make the perfect match for all!
How long will it take to find us a child?
This is always the #1 question for adoptive families! We know that all adoptive parents are so anxious to grow their family. Our office will work with you to help locate a child. The time frame is often determined by how restrictive your application responses are as it relates to the sex or race of the child and your openness to drug or alcohol exposure.
What fees are we, the adoptive parents, responsible for paying?
Fees in adoption vary, depending on the needs of the expectant mother and the legal requirements of the state where the adoption will be finalized. We will provide you with a retainer agreement when a expectant mother is matched with you, and the retainer agreement will set forth a detailed estimate of all fees and expenses anticipated. In Louisiana, there may be living expenses, medical expenses, attorney fees, counseling fees, administrative fees and court costs.
To be placed on our adoptive parent registry, you will need to complete the application on this website and include the $1,500.00 application fee for the one hour informational meeting and other assistance that fee includes.
In other cases, if you contact Odom-Saska Adoptions, LLC for a consultation for either a private adoption where you already have met your birth mother, or if you contact Mrs. Odom or Mrs. Saska for consultation on an Intra-family adoption or adult adoption, you will pay a $250.00 consultation fee prior to the meeting, which amount will be credited to you upon your retaining Odom-Saska Adoptions, LLC at that meeting.
When will the adoption become final?
Every state has its own law regarding the time which an adoption can be finalized. In Louisiana, we can petition the court to finalize a private or agency adoption after the child has been in the home for six (6) months.