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Originally Posted by D. Scarlatti
Another question, LS. Were the parental rights in NC successfully terminated, or is that the proceeding that's at question here, that it's somehow deficient because of the paper filings and so on?
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There are no problems with NC. The issue is with the receiving state, AL.
Here are the three problems
1. The birthmom's attorney had her sign the wrong consent form. She signed a prebirth form, rather than a post birth. That could have been grounds for contesting the adoption later. This has been handled, though. The birthmom signed an affadavit yesterday that she understands it was the wrong form, and meant to sign the post birth on January 5th so the revocation period need not start over. We are good with consent.
2. The social worker who interviewed the birthparents wrote the report in a sort of "fill in the blank" manner. They want it in narrative format. We have been unable to reach her, but should be no problem getting that Monday or Tuesday
3. We were not given the affadavit to sign that we had read and received copies of the medical and social history. We signed those yesterday, so we are good there
Anyway, AL said the baby had to be in NC so that AL could give official permission to come back. All of this paperwork could be done, and was done, regardless of the baby's location, but they refuse to make allowances.
We decided that it would be too expensive and useless to sue, however I want to do something. A system this inflexible isn't efficient, and all of this for an adoption where all interested parties are in 100% agreement and there is no acrimony. What the hell would have happened if we were a bunch of idiots, or the birthparents weren't as strong and commited to this baby and us?
Also, I wonder how the judge would react to them stating she had no jurisdiction and treatng her order as meaningless? Seems she might could be pissed off too.