Essential Guide To Prepare Financially for Adoption
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Laura Coleman is a Tennessee-based Accredited Financial Counselor with specialties with couples, adoption, fertility, and military finances. Laura understands the financial burden placed on couples when they are faced with life altering financial challenges. After experiencing firsthand the financial burden and stress that accompanies the fertility and adoption process, Laura felt compelled to start her own private practice and help couples navigate the waters of their finances and help them overcome communication barriers, money blocks, and create intention with their money.
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Is it possible to afford fertility or adoption without being wealthy?
Listen in to The Adoption and Fertility Finance Show to hear inspirational stories from other couples that have successfully raised the funds for their adoption or fertility treatments. Learn how they did it. They are normal people that struggle from day to day, just like you. Their stories provide HOPE to others on the same journey that you may be on.
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Should you #borrow money for adoption during a #pandemic? I received a message from WalletHub this morning talking about the States that have the greatest search histories for loans right now.
Crazy! #desperation can lead you down a path you don't want to go down.
Right now is not the time to borrow money because we don't know what the future will hold. With over 20 million filing for #unemployment, it's imperative to stay away from #debt, without employment, that could be stressful.
BUT, No one wants to put their goal of having a family on hold, so we've got a few steps to help you reach your #goal without #borrowing the money for adoption/fertility.
1. Open up a savings account and name it specifically Baby Jones 2020
2. Determine your adoption/fertility budget
3. Apply for #grants
4. Create a #fundraiser
5. Start a side business/side hustle
6. Track your money
In our Preparing Financially for Adoption #course we guide you through these 6 steps, so you don't have to forge a new path. We know that money can be a stumbling block, but we want to help you have a system to follow.
During this course you will be able to develop a successful Money Date, create a spending plan to help you plug leaks in personal spending, plan an #adoptionbudget, write a successful grant, develop and run a fundraiser, know what questions to ask your #CPA about adoption, organize your financial documents, prepare financially for the #homestudy, develop a plan for after the kids, understand borrowing money, discover money saving tips for travel for #ICPC, and staying #organized with your finances during your entire adoption process.
Visit our website to sign up for the Preparing Financially for Adoption Course.
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What do you do with all of the adoption paperwork?!
Stay organized with the Family Emergency Binder. Have a place for your medical, insurance, personal family information, important documents like adoption decree, birth certificates, and IEP information, as well as family directives such as Wills.
Check out how the Family Emergency Binder can help you organize yourself before and after adoption.
familymoneycoaching.org/2019/11/06/family-emergency-binder-for-adoption/
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that I can harness other people’s organizational skills and utilize them to ease the stress that chaos causes in my life. I once traded services with a friend to help me get my laundry room organized. She was amazing!
So, when we started the adoption process and then fostering to adopt, the paperwork was killing me. We got paperwork for the homestudy, the attorney, DCS, fostercare classes, court visits, and doctor’s visits. I wanted to be organized, but there wasn’t a specific place for me to put all of the documents.
The Solution To My Problem: The Family Emergency Binder.
Check out what information can be stored in The Family Emergency Binder: familymoneycoaching.org/2019/11/06/family-emergency-binder-for-adoption/
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Check out our 7 Resources to Adopt Debt Free! Visit our blog.
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I hate debt. I hate how it makes me feel. Trapped.
When we pursued fertility and adoption choices, I was shocked to hear how much money we would need to come up with. This is a number that is on top of saving for retirement, saving for emergencies, saving for vacation, saving for a new car, and regular monthly bills. Having children seemed a dream that would never happen because of the money we'd have to come up with.
I was overwhelmed and felt hopeless that I'd ever be a mom.
Now, 9 years later, we have 3 children ages 8, 6, and 4 and we are debt free.
I'm here to tell you that you can #adoptdebtfree because we did it.
I put my knowledge of being an Accredited Financial Counselor and adopting/going through IVF together and created the Preparing Financially for Adoption Course. Inside of the course are tutorials on creating a financial foundation, developing a fundraiser, tracking expenses for your accountant, establishing a spending plan for your adoption, money saving tips, setting up a business for a side hustle, and other money tips. Check out the syllabus!
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You can also find other resources on our website www.familymoneycoaching.org such as The Adoption and Fertility Finance Show, the Essential Guide to Prepare Financially for Adoption, The Adoption and Fertility Grant Success Course, and money ideas on our blog.
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