[kamfl610]

Hi all,

Got a question. Like families aren't complicated enough. Here goes. I have two nieces that live in Korea who needed to be adopted. My brother over there cannot take care of them for financial reasons. Anyway, I have a brother here in the U.S. who wanted to adopt them since him and his wife didn't have any kids. Anyway, they went through the adoption process over there and so legally in Korea, they are his. Now he's trying to get them over here but hasn't had too much success I guess with immigration. So now it's been almost a year and he hasn't done anything. I'm kind of frustrated. Now he's saying, he doesn't want to adopt them so I said I'll adopt them but he has legal custody of the kids in Korea. So now I don't know what to do. How do I get the kids here when my brother here has legal Korean custody of them. I thought that he could get them here since he lives in Ohio and we could make a legal agreement to have me adopt them. But now he's not sure. I'm about to go crazy. What can be done? Anyone know how to work this out? Okay to further complicate this, I was adopted by my aunt and uncle so technically my biological brothers are legally my cousins so I'd be legally adopting my cousins child, I guess. My Ohio brother was never adopted so legally he's still a brother to my other one. God...so confusing sometimes. Thanks!