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Here's our case. We have 3 of 5 sibs. The 3 we have are on 2 different TPR's (all have TPR's, but the younger 2 are on appeal). The 2 that we don't have were voluntarily TPR'd when the were born due to positive drug tests at birth and were adopted as infants (they are now about 6 and 4 we think). Our oldest (10) was removed from bmom 1st (why him and not the others we don't know yet) and had a kinship placement that went horribly wrong (he thought the marks on his tummy were birthmarks...should have seen him shut down when the doc at intake physical told him they were scars!). He is finally 100% legally free. HOWEVER! CPS is waiting for the appeal to finish on the next 2 before releasing him for adoption. The plan is for us to adopt all 3, but we have to wait.
I think the reason they are waiting is so that we (or anyone else) can't adopt the oldest and then turn around and say we don't want the other 2. We went into this wanting sibs so they could stay together (which is what we did because these 3 hadn't been together in years and after 6 months, they're just about getting used to each other again).
Another reason might be so that there is only 1 legal fee for the adoption? Don't know... just taking it one day at a time.
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