[FLNewbie]

Hi Everyone,

My husband and I have had our foster daughter for about 2 months now and all is going wonderfully. She has become attached to us and we simply love her. She has a concurrent case plan and we hope to adopt her should the opportunity arise.

Now for the bad news, I was informed today that her biological siblings' (that she has never met as she was not born or even conceived when they were removed, TPR'd and adopted) adoptive parents found out about her and are wanting a home study so that they can foster her. We are completely devastated and I hope you can shed some light on situations such as these. Do we as her current foster family have any rights? Is there anything we can do?

Our foster daughter has bonded with our biological daughter and considers her her sister/sibling and us her parents. Does this count for anything as removing her would virtually put her with strangers? I know there is a blood relation, but that is it, they have never had any connection at all. I read somewhere, that a sibling group by law is considered that when the children have been raised together or know each other. Is this true in FL? Does anyone know what the legal definition of sibling group is in FL? At present, none of the children know about each other and if they did we would be more than happy to have them know each other. Another strange thing is that this adoptive mother stated that she did not want the biological mother to know that our foster daughter is being placed with her if it comes to that. Any ideas why this may be?

I'm sorry this is so long, please advise. I'm hoping that our foster daughter's best interest will be put ahead of biological relationship, but am terrified that it will not.

Thanks so much,
FLNewbie