[willowhawk]

My heart goes out to you guys.....This seems like something you'd only hear about in the movies...I have to say, my first two adopted kids (7 & 9) and my last one (2) were all high risk adoptions. The first two had different fathers, one signed off when birth mom's rights were terminated, but the other was parts unknown. We were concerned about this, but the legal department of our agency posted an item in the local newspaper for three consecutive weeks and this was all they said they had to do...just to notify anyone claiming to be the father of said child....if no response then, legally we were in the clear. With our two year old, the birth mom said she had no idea who the father was...the same thing was done. We have had no problems as supposedly this prevents any legal recourse from any unknown parent. Not sure if something like this would help you in the future. Again, I'm thinking of you and Samantha.....Cindy