According to art.50 of Law 273/2004 regarding the adoption procedure, "The adopter or, optionally, any of the spouses of the adoptive family, who earn income subject to income tax, according to the provisions of Law no. 227/2015 regarding the Fiscal Code, with an accommodation period of maximum two years, which also includes the period of subsequent amendments and completions, from salary activities and those assimilated to them or, as the case may be, from independent activities, copyright or agricultural activities, hereinafter referred to as the entitled person, may benefit from a leave for placing the child for adoption, as well as from a monthly allowance."

According to art.73 para 3 of Government Decision 579/2016 regarding the approval of the Methodological Norms for the application of Law 273/2004 regarding the adoption procedure, "For granting the monthly allowance related to the accommodation leave, the application and supporting documents provided in para. (1) and (2) shall be submitted within 10 working days from the date on which the court decision for placement for adoption was enforced and shall be registered with the county agency for payments and social inspection and, as the case may be, of the municipality of Bucharest in whose administrative-territorial area the entitled person has domicile, hereinafter referred to as the territorial agency."