[bohbay]

Hoping someone can help with this. My mother in law has been trying without success to reach her grand daughter. This child was born in 1986. She was born in Germany to an American mother that had married a man in the Army. The man that was married to the girls mother at the time of her birth was not her father. Later this man took the child from her mother and went to his parents where they helped him take her legally from the mother and they know he is not the childs biological parent. Sounds messed up as is it. After the divorce the mother was granted court ordered visitation but was never allowed to see the child. Despite all attempts to see her... none were successful. Now after becoming even more determined to see her granddaughter, the grandmother finds out that the child was adopted by the mans parents in 1999. Is there no recourse in this? The child will be 18 next year. All letters sent went unanswered and we believe they may have been intercepted all along. The granddaughter has a right to know that there is a family without her all these years. She has a half brother and half sisters that are aware of her and want her to be a part of her family. Does anyone know what the best way is to legally contact the girl and prevent the adoptive parents from keeping her in the dark as to the truth anymore? She was adopted in Alabama. Can a court by means of adoption state to the world you are no longer a part of the family you were born into? She has aunts, uncles and cousins here and abroad that have never given up hope of one day being able to see her and let her know she was never abandoned, she was stolen. There is an empty place in many hearts.