[carlychan]

Hello everyone,

I need to hear opinions and experiences with moving with your foster children after TPR but before finalization. We are military and my husband has been at a school across the country since July. He will be moving to another state in August. We want to go there with him (of course). I have stayed here with our boys and FS. TPR hearing (after being delayed 3 months) is in March. It will probably go to a trial but will most likely be granted. My FS adoption worker says after that (and paperwork approval by state) we can take FS out of state with us. She said we would have to either come back here for finalization or get a lawyer in the new state and do it there. After TPR he will no longer be a foster child but an adoptive placement and that is why we can take him. We do have to get the agency there to agree to visit once a month or something to keep "tabs" on us. I think this will be fine because it is a military city and I assume they run into this more often than "normal" agencies. I LOVE our worker and she had a little meeting with my worker and their supervisior about this. I just know things don't always work as planned.

What should I expect to happen? Are there questions I should be asking or anything I should do now? Our move won't be for another 7-8 months so I do have plenty of time to plan. If it matters, our FS will have been with us for almost 2 years at that point.

Thanks for your advice and opinions!
Carly