[BrandyHagz]

There are two schools of practice with regards to Termination of Parental Rights.

1. There is a set 'revocation period' in which the parents can come back and revoke their termination.

2. There is no 'revocation period' and once the paper is signed, it’s done - no going back.

In both, 1 and 2 - the only way the TPR can be overturned once the revocation period has passed (in the case of instance 1) and the child returned to the birth parents, is if they can prove, in a court of law, that they were coerced or forced to sign.

This 'worst case scenario' of returning the child six months later is the exception, not the rule - however, because it's so 'dramatic' it often gets LOTS of press and/or LOTS of plotlines in movies. This is the ‘story’ that sticks in the mind of John Q. Public (or your Mother-in-Law’s cousin’s best friends aunt’s sister who had it happen to her)

I am not saying it doesn't happen - because it does - there are legitimate instances in which birth parents do revoke within the time frame allowed and/or go to court and prove duress - as is their legal right.

This is why it is imperative for adoptive parents to use adoption practitioners who are above board and adhere to a high moral code.