A Utah adoption agency imploded. It cost potential parents a child — and $575,000

According to data shared by Evermore Adoption Consultancy, more than a dozen other families that it connected with Brighter Adoptions were unable to complete an adoption before the closure, with more than $575,000 in non-refundable fees paid to Quick that did not result in a child. Since her email, none of the families KUER spoke with have heard from Quick, despite repeated attempts to make contact. As for the money they paid, it’s effectively gone….

“Adoptive families generally receive a financial breakdown of how their money is spent. None of the families who talked to KUER received this information from Quick.

They said it left a question mark over how much of their money was spent — or lost. Some adoptive families believe Quick may have deliberately matched them with mothers likely to disrupt to secure match fees, then rolled costs into new matches that might have required fewer services and were therefore less expensive. With no clear financial breakdown, they said there was no way to know if, on what or where their money was spent.”