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Please help me... I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on sunday at 11:04 am. I had been THINKING on an open adoption... i had a family picked out... but I told them that i needed some time after my baby's birth to make a serious decision... I thought I would have no support or help from anyone, that I would have to do everything on my own... I recently told my mom and she agreed to do everything she could to help me... but that's not where i need help.
I gave birth on sunday... monday morning... at about 10 am the lawyer came by to ask me to sign papers. She told me and I quote: "because the adoptive parents live in DC we will be going by DC law. Not MD law even though you're giving birth in MD. By MD law i have 30 days to revoke my decision however in DC there is no such grace period. Once I sign my rights away then that is it, I don't have any other chances to say no." She had me sign a waiver that i understood we would be going by DC law instead of MD law and that I would waive that thirty day period...
I was looking up laws for DC regarding adoptions.. the information is so incredibly scant! But i read somewhere that by DC law I was not supposed to have to sign anything until 72 hours after the baby's birth. that it was illegal to have me sign before then... but I signed less then 24 hours after my son was born... extremely exhausted, tired and mentally and emotionally taxed. I also read that DC law states that i have 10 days after signing to revoke my rights...
But I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S TRUE! The few sites i found with any information on DC adoption laws were so round-and-about and a couple didn't look too proffessional... Please help me....
I need someone to help me quickly... I don't want to lose this chance I have at my son being with me... It's been almost a week... It'll be a week this coming sunday... My heart is exploding I cant' sleep, I can barely eat, I don't want to do anything... I don't even want to smile. I feel like i'm walking in a big huge fog. I don't hurt any more i'm so numb from it all... and i'm worried about my baby. I haven't heard from the adoptive parents at all.... even though it's an open adoption... In fact two days ago on Wed. I asked the adoptive mother to tell me when they discharged the baby from the hospital and if it were possible for her to make a stop by so that i may say goodbye and get a blanket that he was wrapped in so that i could cuddle it at night. She said yes... but I haven't heard from her since... I feel dumb like I'm believing a whole bunch of lies... this is killing me on the inside please help me....
Here's the website that said all the info i had above...
[url=http://laws.adoption.com/statutes/dc-laws,3.html]Washington, DC Adoption Laws, Page 3[/url]
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You need to call a lawyer immediately!!!Prefereably someone that knows adoption law. pm me. I mnay know someone who can help.
I had an independent adoption... aparently the rules are different in those then in an agency adoption...
KaenaAlure
I had an independent adoption... aparently the rules are different in those then in an agency adoption...
They shouldn't be. Who told you that?
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You indicated that you placed in a private adoption - it looks like DC Is an agency only state, based on this: Consent must be executed before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments, a representative of a child-placing agency, or the Mayor's office.
Did you sign at the Mayor's Office? If not, an attorney, unless they are a licensed placement agency, isn't authorized.
Either way - agency or mayor, you have ten days to revoke - and you must do it in writing.
Send a certified letter, return reciept request, overnight. Also, hire an attorney to make sure your rights are represented.