Health reform law extends, enhances adoption credit  Science
Elizabeth Stawicki · ·   1. Listen Story audio      May 24, 2010
Christine Daves and son   Tucked into the 2,000-page federal
health care law is a provision designed to help parents defray
some of the costs of adoption.  The law increases the federal
adoption tax credit by about $1,000, to more than $13,000 for
the costs of finalizing a domestic or foreign adoption. It also
aims to help lower income families adopt. The credit was due to
end this year, until the new health care law extended it until
December 2011.  A Minneapolis couple said the tax credit was a
big help to them when they adopted a son four years ago.
Christine Daves, 36, and her husband Brian, 46, adopted Elliot
from Korea during the summer of 2006, when the child was four
months old.  The Daves decided to adopt because they had a
family history of some medical problems. Christine Daves says
the one-time credit was a huge help, since the cost of Elliot's
adoption totaled nearly $35