Progress at last

Yeah, so I'm a really bad blogger. I guess if I have any readers, you'll just have to DWI!

We got the best news this week - We went to court for Lucas and termination of parental rights was granted due to lack of parental adjustment and abandonment. Since Lucas has not seen his parents in his whole life (since giving birth at the hospital) I was happy that the process was not drawn out longer as the defense attorney for the parents basically asked if she "should" be assigned to the case even though she had not seen the bio parents for almost a year. The final result was that there was no attorney appointed for them for this case and we proceeded to do the TPR process. If they HAD appointed her as the attorney, then our case would have taken several more months.

Now we have to wait 30 days for the appeals time limit to expire and then we can petition for adoption. If all goes well, we should be done before the end of the year. Not that it matters now - no one can walk in and try to reunify at this point. The appeal is simply a waiting period. If the bio parents want to appeal, they have to hire their own attorney and file. We don't expect that will happen.

Well, have to run - going grocery shopping!