Employees are eligible for FMLA leave if all of the following apply: 1  Theyâve worked for their employer at least 12 months. 2  Theyâve worked at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, or about 25 hours per week. 3  They work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles.
Costs for an adoption vary widely from $0 to $50,000 depending on the type of adoption pursued. It generally costs from $0 to $1,000 to adopt a child from a County Foster/Adopt program. These children are often older, but sometimes infants are placed.
1 Adoption expenses: A tax credit can be claimed for expenses related to the adoption of a child under the age of 18. 2  For the 2014 tax year, the government increased the maximum amount of eligible expenses to $15,000 â up from $11,669 in 2013 â which would amount to a tax savings of $2,250.