[sugarbabysmommy]

Hum, many thoughts going through my head. Let me just start with something simple- where is the baby now? Is your SIL able to appoint a gaurdian, and not have her rights terminated? I'm surprised her rights will be terminated in under a year, is she not working with CPS on following a reunification plan?

There is more here to talk about, but many of the answers can only come from you and your wife- could you raise this child as uncle and aunt? And, if her rights are terminated, does your SIL understand getting clean doesn't mean she gets her parental rights back- ever! It's far from that simple. If you chose to retrun the child once you become the legal parents, you would need to sign away your parental rights to the child and your SIL would then have to be homestudied and apply for adoption of her child. That's why I ask about gaurdianship.

Someone needs to explain what lossing her rights means- and don't just rely on the caseworker to do that.