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All I want to say is good luck. Things are pretty easy if the other parent does not contest the adoption.
For some reason, birth parents are really really protected. I am going through a contested adoption right now. My ex has not paid child support in three years, and has not visited in two.
He did not respond to the petition, and the judge kept giving him more and more time to respond.
Finally, the parents of the birth father responded. He has a violent past, has abused my son when he did see him, and now that someone wants to adopt and take care of him, he is protesting.
This is a losing battle because the judge will rarely take away any rights, unless there is a criminal conviction involved. Even worse, the other side is blatantly lying about their involvment, of course, trying to make themselves look good.
I am trying to keep my head up, but this is very depressing. I do not know why unfit parents are so protected, and have the right to abuse their children. But that is what I am hearing.
I am just taking comfort in the fact that our new family is in tact, an that no one can change that, despite what stupid judge rules.
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