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Hello. I have had our twins since birth and are now over a year old. Paternal grandmother is currently being looked at for an ICPC. Our social worker tells us that even if she is approved, she is giong to request that the girls stay with us. Our attorney says that once the ICPC is approved, the girls will be removed from our home. Parents had their first six month hearing when girls were nine months old and received a six month extension. we are currently in month three of the second extension. Do you know if the judge will wait until the next hearing to decide if girls are removed from our home and transferred out of state to a grandmother that has knowwn about their existence, but hasn't done anything to request them? Has anyone dealt with this? I am overwhelmed and any help would be appreciated. Our plan has always been to adopt them. As you can imagine, we are head over heels in love with them.
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If you want to keep them fill out your own paperwork to become the potential adoptive parents. To do so you need to initiate a step in the adoption. Examples - beginning a homestudy...there are some that are really simple...
[url=http://www.advokids.org/advokids_pap.html]Advokids: Prospective Adoptive Parent Information[/url]
Also file for de facto parent status. You just take the paperwork to the juvenile court business office and hand it to them - it is simple. You do not need a lawyer. If granted they have to notify you in writing that the child is going to be removed. It is also the states burden at that point to prove that it is in the childs best interest to move that child to another home. Perhaps if you can afford it you could also have a bonding assessment done. If that professional could state that they are bonded and it is best to stay with you, the state might have hard time proving otherwise as they have to. If things do not go your way then you can appeal.
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