Conditional Surrender type of Voluntary Surrender

In our case, the BioDad had already surrendered thinking that Mom would keep the baby. We ended up with the baby when she came into care the second time. Mom's lawyer, the CASA, and the CW all wanted her to surrender to us. This way, Mom's lawyer could write up an agreement that Mom was comfortable with as an incentive for her to sign. The alternative would have been for the baby to go to a relative who would never allow Mom to see the baby because if she didn't do an identified surrender then the state would have to give the baby to the relative. We were comfortable with the agreement as well. So the lawyer wrote up a contract that named us as the adoptive parents.