[strawberri33]

i am trying to get my sis child placed with me i have went through everything background check, homestudy and everything for placement. then cw ran into a problem she said my sis doesn't want to placed her child in my home. where is it that she gets say so to where child is placed? now i am waiting for cw to draw up papers to override her decision. how long does it take to do this. also i want to adopt this child? how can i go about doing this? should i contact a attorney? any suggestions will be helpful. please pray for speedy placement of child. ch

[Faith65]

Strewberri,

I am in the same situation as you we have my ex sister in law's 13 year old daughter. (Just found out through testing my brother is NOT the bio father). And my exsil is fighting DCF and us tooth and nail not for us to raise or adopt her 13 year old. We are very furtunate finally that sw, state, psyh evels, dr.s and GAL are all seeing what, where and whom this child loved and cared for. We did everything that state requested and then some. TPR has just been filed as of Friday. So, there will be another fall out soon once we get the hearing dates.

It is a long and fustrating process. As the state gave biom 3 years to pull her act together with 13 other placements for this child before returning home to us!

My sugestion is to contuine fighting, offer to do whatever including pysh evels, therapy appts with your niece too. Have the SW advocate for your niece and you. And have faith in God.

My email is Autumndays65@aol.com if you want.