• You have a right to place your child for adoption through an adoption agency or through a private adoption.
  
  
• You have a right to choose the parents who will adopt your child, know their names, religion and other similar information and meet them, if desired.
  
  
• You have a right to review the adoptive parents’ home study.
  
  
• You have a right to make a written open adoption agreement to permit you pictures, letters or personal contact with the child after placement. The agreement is a moral agreement and will not be legally enforced by the Tennessee Courts.
  
  
• You have a right to name your child on his or her first birth certificate. The adoptive parents have a right to name the child on the second birth certificate which will be issued after the adoption is final.
  
  
• You have the right to your own attorney at the expense of the adoptive parents. In most cases, you also have the right to decline counsel.
  
  
• You have the right to receive counseling from the counselor of your choice for a total of 12 months at the expense of the adoptive parents. You also have the right to decline counseling.
  
  
• You have the right to have the adoptive parents pay for your birth related medical expenses.

This document is intended as general information. (Modeled after the Tennessee Birth Parent Bill of Rights by Dawn Coppock, Attorney at Law. All rights reserved.)

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