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My husband wants to adopt my 7 year old daughter. He is the only person she's ever known as daddy. Her bio father was a dangerous person and he lived in canada. His name is not on the birth certificate, but I do have custody order saying I have full physical and legal custody. He had never seen her. I left when I was a few months pregnant. Last year in California we decided to go ahead and risk letting him know where I was and file the step parent adoption papers. When we got to the part where we needed to notify him, the private investigator found out he had died in an accident when my daughter was about 3 years old. We have a copy of the death certificate which should make things fairly simple right? In California even though this was the case we still had to go thru a home visit with children and family services. The waiting list was 8 months. We finally got within a month of our visit and found out we had to take a company transfer across country and only had 15 days notice. Which meant we were out about 5k in legal fees. We are now in NC and I'm looking to find out if there's a cheaper way to go about filing the papers (can I do it myself?) since the case is pretty much open and shut with her bio father being dead. Are there any paralegals out there that would do it for under 1k? Help! Stephanie
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