Ok we have a update on this case.
I confirmed this with an attorney.
If a child has been in your foster home for a year or more and the parent's right are terminated, the foster parents have the first right to adopt the child.
After we talked to an attorney the agency changed their minds quick like. We do have first legal right to adopt the child but....
Now the situation is this...
The child was voluntarily placed by the parents, the child was not taken from the parents in regard to abuse, so the adoption is treated like a regular adoption. Not a foster adoption.
When we adopted our other two children the adoption was taken care of by the state because they were MCI ward children (removed from home by the state) They, the state, subsidize these adoptions. Where in the case of our foster baby this is not the case. We were never made aware of this until we just seeked legal advice.
Now we have the right to adopt, but we will have to pay $$$ to adopt, which we did not know. Now we are not in the position at this time financially to pay for the adoption.
We wish we would have known this prior to this happening, we could have saved to adopt the child or made arrangements.
Thanks for listening and the advise people gave.
