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You have rights. In Michigan if a foster child has been in your home less than one year and TPR happens then a birth family member can step forward and take the child. But if no birth family steps forward than the foster placement has the 1st choice on if they will adopt the child or not. After one year you actually have more rights than even the birth family after TPR. After one year if a birth family member steps forward it will slow down an adoption but not stop it. They figure if it took them that long to come forward then they couldn't want the child too much. So, after one year the foster placement has the very first consideration out of anyone. I wish I could send you to some legal sites but I only know this because of my daughters adoption 1 1/2 years ago. We had her for 16 months and a birth aunt stepped forward. Everything I just told you is what the social worker told me. I've got a good friend who is also a foster parent and she wanted to be a lawyer at one time and actually knows the names of most of the laws dealing with foster care. I will call her tomorrow and see if I can find out if she knows where you can find this information in concrete form to you have something to fight with other than my word. Do give up, and don't give in to them. Remember that you have rights too and if this child has been in your home this long that moving him is an unneccessary trauma.
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