Yesterday (Feb 12) we had a court date for Evalynn to see if the judge would grant severance of her birth parents rights SEPERATE from CPS (in other words we wouldn't have to wait for CPS to finish up all their junk).
THE JUDGE GRANTED IT!!!!!!
This means that we can start the adoption proccess for Evalynn now. Hopefully we can get on the ball and be done in about 6 months.
Since Donavan's birth dad can't be contacted, we have to wait for a notice to be published in the paper that Jessie is wanting us to adopt him. The notice has to run once a week for 4 weeks and then we have to wait 30 days to see if there is any response. So the judge set a date of April 6 for another court date to address Donavan's birth parent rights (this date is before CPS date of May 9th-that is when they are "supposed" to make a final decision on all this but they seem to like to continue things).
It was also decided yesterday that Evalynn and Donavan should start having contact immediately (they were supposed to start having contact back in Oct). To make this happen CPS is going to set up meeting for just the two of them at their office in Mesa. That way the schedules of us foster moms won't be an issue (except I still have to drive to Mesa). We are so excited that these meetings might actually start happening!!!!!
Sorry for the long post!!! We are EXCITED-it feels like we are finally getting somewhere!!!!!
The Spencer & Elisa Roberts Family
4 comments:
SO exciting! That is awesome. You guys have so much patience and joy through the long wait.
That is awesome guys!! And it is great you are finally able to make some progress. If we can we will have to get together when you are in town
The post wasn't long at all. I sped right through it rejoicing at each word. Thanks for keeping us updated!
That's fantastic news! What a tremendous blessing. Keep us posted.
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