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HI May
This is nuts! I'm so sorry you and your little boy are going through this. The one thing I have going for me in my case is this is a private termination so the State isn't involved and they can't muck things up for me at ths point. Where were these relatives 3 years ago when this precious little boy needed them most. What he needs from them now is to be allowed to stay where he is loved and is being given a sense of security and learning trust. To move him now would be detrimental to him. I know there are several cases in dependency that speak about the best interest of the child the least detrimental. If you can get to a local law library that his connected to some sort of legal search program you can go in and put best interest of the child and you will find all kinds of cases that maybe you can give to your social worker or casa to try and help. Once again I'm so sorry you are going through this. I will keep you in my prayers.
My little boy is now 13 months old and he is thriving. Birth dad hasn't taken me back to court. We went once in August and he was told to come back soon. I think the reason things have slowed down (in my favor) is that as of November he no longer qualified for a free public defender. Now that he has to pay to fight he has slowed down. I think our case is going to end up ok. Basically I'm going to have child that I nursed (never gave birth to) and a jerk for an ex-husband that I was never married to. We are going to end up with an open adoption that will be more open than I had originally planned. However if my son can have a healthy relationship with his birthfather then it will be ok. take care and I pray that we all get to keep our children that have been placed with us.
anxious mama
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