{"data":{"id":"us-mt/42-7-102","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"42-7-102","heading":"Limitations on payment of certain fees.","body":"(1) A prospective adoptive parent may pay counseling expenses for a combined maximum of 10 hours of adoptive decision support services provided pursuant to 42-2-409 and postadoptive counseling provided pursuant to 42-4-211.\n(2) A prospective adoptive parent may pay cost-sharing expenses for prenatal or postnatal outpatient mental health services provided to the birth mother. Expenses under this subsection are limited to a total of 15 outpatient mental health counseling sessions during the prenatal period and the 5 years following the birth of the child.\n(3) A prospective adoptive parent may pay for legal costs entailed for providing legal counsel for one birth parent unless the birth parents elect joint representation. The right of a relinquishing parent to legal counsel paid by the prospective adoptive parent continues only until the relinquishment becomes irrevocable. An attorney may not represent both a birth parent and a prospective adoptive parent.","path":["TITLE 42. ADOPTION","CHAPTER 7. FEES AND PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES RELATED TO ADOPTION","Part 1. General Fees and Activities"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0420/chapter_0070/part_0010/section_0020/0420-0070-0010-0020.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:55:19Z","sha256":"24e66aa79053370a5af5e3ba6644dcdf0c8e29b308b80d3121575bef92aba8b7","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/42-7-101","next":"us-mt/42-7-103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}