[Thoughts_1]

Hello Everyone:

I will start this out by explaining the past, and maybe there is someone out there that can advise, or give the law that will assist my Neice in her endeavour.

My Niece was 15 years of age when she became pregnant. She was living in a Foster Home, and gave birth to twins. The WelFare ( Human Services as they want to be called now ) decided to move my Niece to another Foster Home, without her daughters. Then the Systems stepped in and took Perm. Custody of her daughters and allowed the Foster Person to care for them. Course, at that age of a young girl, she thought everything was in the up and up and she did not know how to defend herself and her children. The birth father and my niece refused to sign adoption papers for the children to be adopted.

My Niece has seen them over the 14 years that they have been in the system. She gets along with the person who has cared for them. It had come to my nieces attention that the foster person has been telling people, and the twins that she had adopted them. My niece has tried to she her court file down in Juvenile and her daughters file, only to be told that she could not.

Is there a law, or a precedent, that will allow my niece to look at her juvenile and court file, and her daughter's file so she can see for herself that indeed the foster person did adopt her daughters, or if the foster person is just running a scam on her and her children ?

Juvenile court did not say whether the files were closed, or explained why she could not look at the files. They just said, " No, you can not look at these files. "

I thought that there was a precedent of law that gave the birth parent the ability to look at court records that pertained to themselves and their children, whether the Human Services stepped in because the system thought the pregnant person was to young to raise a child.

I would like to have some thoughts and advise from individuals concerning this issue.

Thanking you in this matter.

Norm

[Boscobubby]

I don't if this will help but niece went to health dept and got the birth certificate and found the person was lying. There was all her info on the certificate and no addendum attached (states another certificate on file). Also she asked the person if she was adopted would the certificate of had adoptive parents name on it and they stated yes or the certificate would of not been available if a closed adoption. She can also go to the courts and ask for an evaluation and maybe they will let her do parenting class and home study and get them out of the system. If they really are adopted then they would tell her that in court and possibly when she went to file for an evaluation.

[mom2behappy]

that if the twins are 14 they may very well be adopted, wether your neice signed or not they very well may have TPR'd your niece, does your niece have visitation thru an agency? here in NYC if you call the child abuse hotline and request information on a child from foster care they will either tellyou which agency is responsible for the child or tell you that the child has been adopted