Adopted Cild to return to Legal father...

[stealth2]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Utah

Mom (married to Dad) put their child up for adoption w/o his knowledge or consent. Adoptive parents were informed of that fact, as well as that Dad could contest the adoption. They are appealing the decision to return the little girl to her father... What a mess... =(

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/bestoftv/2012/12/08/ac-pkg-kaye-utah-adoption-battle.cnn

ETA - sorry for the missong h's... my keyboard, my keyboard...

 

[Proserpina]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Utah

Mom (married to Dad) put their child up for adoption w/o his knowledge or consent. Adoptive parents were informed of that fact, as well as that Dad could contest the adoption. They are appealing the decision to return the little girl to her father... What a mess... =(

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/bestoftv/2012/12/08/ac-pkg-kaye-utah-adoption-battle.cnn

ETA - sorry for the missong h's... my keyboard, my keyboard...

And by all accounts, it's not as if Dad ignored the whole issue for a year - he appeared to take action as soon as the wife/ex-wife told him she'd placed the child for adoption.

(Which would appear to be 3 months after the child's birth, according to this: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55401223-78/adoption-achane-child-agency.html.csp )

There's also an update from Achane's attorney in the comments section.

 

[Ohiogal]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Utah

Mom (married to Dad) put their child up for adoption w/o his knowledge or consent. Adoptive parents were informed of that fact, as well as that Dad could contest the adoption. They are appealing the decision to return the little girl to her father... What a mess... =(

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/bestoftv/2012/12/08/ac-pkg-kaye-utah-adoption-battle.cnn

ETA - sorry for the missong h's... my keyboard, my keyboard...

It wouldn't have been this mess if mom and the adoptive parents had done what they should have done. Mom was a big fat liar who deserves to be criminally prosecuted for fraud. The adoptive parents KNEW this was a possibility. They decided to deprive this parent of his child because they wanted him. Good judgment.

 

[CSO286]

It wouldn't have been this mess if mom and the adoptive parents had done what they should have done. Mom was a big fat liar who deserves to be criminally prosecuted for fraud. The adoptive parents KNEW this was a possibility. They decided to deprive this parent of his child because they wanted him. Good judgment.

If biological mom and dad were married, and dad was military, it should not have been too diffcult for either mom, the adoption agency or the potential adoptive parents to locate dad to inform him of the situation and give him a chance to exercise his legal rights.

OG, a question: Mom's parental rights would have been terminated as part of the adoption proceedings. Assuming Dad gets custody of his child, does the biological mom have any standing to obtain custody/parenting time (after her rights were terminated through what would appear to now be an invalidated adoption)?

 

[stealth2]

Oh, I agree that it is the proper judgment. I feel for the child.

I took issue with BioMom going on about how he wasn't there for her. HE'S IN THE ARMY, LADY! HE HAD NO CHOICE about being stationed elsewhere.

 

[Proserpina]

If biological mom and dad were married, and dad was military, it should not have been too diffcult for either mom, the adoption agency or the potential adoptive parents to locate dad to inform him of the situation and give him a chance to exercise his legal rights.

OG, a question: Mom's parental rights would have been terminated as part of the adoption proceedings. Assuming Dad gets custody of his child, does the biological mom have any standing to obtain custody/parenting time (after her rights were terminated therough what would appear to now be an invalidated adoption)?

If what the press are reporting is actually all true, then "Hopefully Not".

Heck, wouldn't her actions be enough for an involuntary TPR anyway?

 

[stealth2]

Mom apparently provided the wrong contact onfor for Dad - deliberately.

 

[Ohiogal]

If biological mom and dad were married, and dad was military, it should not have been too diffcult for either mom, the adoption agency or the potential adoptive parents to locate dad to inform him of the situation and give him a chance to exercise his legal rights.

OG, a question: Mom's parental rights would have been terminated as part of the adoption proceedings. Assuming Dad gets custody of his child, does the biological mom have any standing to obtain custody/parenting time (after her rights were terminated through what would appear to now be an invalidated adoption)?

If the adoption is invalidated so would be the termination of mom's parental rights as that happened during the same proceeding. And this case is NOT as rare as people would like to think. At least this has come up while the child is still an infant and not four, five, six, ten years down the road.

 

[Ohiogal]

If what the press are reporting is actually all true, then "Hopefully Not".

Heck, wouldn't her actions be enough for an involuntary TPR anyway?

Nope. She would still have her parental rights if the adoption is voided.

 

[Ohiogal]

Mom apparently provided the wrong contact onfor for Dad - deliberately.

That happens -- people lie to the court all the time.

 

[LdiJ]

If the adoption is invalidated so would be the termination of mom's parental rights as that happened during the same proceeding. And this case is NOT as rare as people would like to think. At least this has come up while the child is still an infant and not four, five, six, ten years down the road.

Except that the adoptive parents are appealing. I cannot blame them but while their appeal goes through the system the child will get older, and then, when they eventually lose, the child will be older and will face much more traumna in the transition. I feel so sorry for the child.

 

[Ohiogal]

Except that the adoptive parents are appealing. I cannot blame them but while their appeal goes through the system the child will get older, and then, when they eventually lose, the child will be older and will face much more traumna in the transition. I feel so sorry for the child.

Ain't it grand that the adopted parents are being completely and totally selfish over what THEY want. They knew this was a possibility and they participated in the fraud. Hope they get slammed with paying dad's attorney fees.

 

[janM]

This is a good story about it:
http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/12/06/another-father-stops-utah-adoption-of-his-child/

 

[PQN]

I agree that birthmom should be facing criminal charges.

As far as the adoptive parents are concerned, I am withholding judgement. We don't know what they knew or when they knew it. It is not at all uncommon for dad to be either 'unknown' or 'unable to be located'. All of my adopted children had their birthfathers rights terminated through publication "John Doe and all other possible fathers of baby boy born to Jane Smith on 01/01/2001" as part of CPS cases. There is a huge difference between the adoptive parents being told "we can't locate dad but mom says he doesn't want the baby so we will follow our state's legal requirements to TPR on an absent father" and "mom doesn't want dad involved so we are going to TPR without him (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)"

I wish the adoptive parents would have negotiated some type of open contact with dad. It would have been nice to see the two families work together rather than continue the court battle.

 

[Ohiogal]

I agree that birthmom should be facing criminal charges.

As far as the adoptive parents are concerned, I am withholding judgement. We don't know what they knew or when they knew it. It is not at all uncommon for dad to be either 'unknown' or 'unable to be located'. All of my adopted children had their birthfathers rights terminated through publication "John Doe and all other possible fathers of baby boy born to Jane Smith on 01/01/2001" as part of CPS cases. There is a huge difference between the adoptive parents being told "we can't locate dad but mom says he doesn't want the baby so we will follow our state's legal requirements to TPR on an absent father" and "mom doesn't want dad involved so we are going to TPR without him (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)"

I wish the adoptive parents would have negotiated some type of open contact with dad. It would have been nice to see the two families work together rather than continue the court battle.

The article I read stated that they knew about him. And CPS sometimes lies outright as well in order to hurry along adoption/custody cases. The only one who pays in that case is the father for attorney fees and the child.