Linda J Barnby

We were matched with a young woman for 16 weeks before the 21 year old changed her mind at the beginning of her 3rd trimester. Linda kept nearly $19,000 of the funds we sent and said we REALLY owed her more like 25k but that she would "wave" the additional amount we still owed. Keep in mind, this fin...alized adoption was estimated, by her, to cost 31k. She is good at math when she's tallying up her time..... but very POOR at the math when presenting a case to you. If you send funds you will never see them again because she has about 4 ways to get paid in her contract.. . . . . . . if you happen to sneeze while talking to Linda.... and she stops to say 'God Bless You'... just know she charged you for that.

I worked with Linda Barnby while in the process of adopting and I do not recommend her to other prospective adoptive parents. My greatest concerns with Ms. Barnby have to do with the way she handled the adoption finances. The birth mom that Ms. Barnby partnered me with ultimately changed her mind a...nd decided to parent her baby. Unfortunately for me, the birth mother expenses were quite high, and Ms. Barnby opted to give money that was budgeted for the 6 weeks post delivery to the birth mom ahead of time. She did this without consulting me, and I was unable to recoup that amount once the adoption didn't go through. Ms. Barnby also elected to keep her entire legal fee in my case, even though the vast majority of legal work in the adoption (which was to be done AFTER the birth when parental rights are terminated) was never carried out. This made an already devastating experience all the more difficult. I would not recommend that any adoptive parent use Ms. Barnby's adoption services as in my experience, her lack of regard for me and my finances was very disappointing.