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I am in Maryland and my wonderful daughter is from PA. We saw her on PA's photolisting on the internet and called her worker. She is 6. She has been with us for 4 months and TPR isn't completed, but her mother's appeal is in December and no problems are anticipated. In her case, the state was very open to placing her out of state and its been a very good experience for us. Our only issue was that her worker had never done an out of state placement and inter-state paperwork was all new to her so that turned out to be quite an issue. But we got it done.... We were the chosen family in April but they wanted her to finish out the school year there. As a result we traveled 8 hours each way every weekend for 2 months. Very tiring but the transition went well. I agree that most states want to place children in their state, but cases do come up where the children are available. My daughter has quite a few special needs which may have led them to look out of state also due to lack of families willing to accept her disorders.
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