Adoption Update
Denise
Here's where we are in the process...with some corrections and new steps:
  1. Adoption home study interview - Mom
  2. Adoption home study interview - Middle Boy
  3. Adoption home study interview - family
  4. Fingerprints - Mom
  5. Adoption study paperwork - Foster Care Specialist - waiting for the results of my fingerprinting...which by the way has been done SEVEN TIMES in the last two years.
  6. Determine baseline monthly stipend - Service Coordinator/Mom - This will be done at our FTM in June.  I am going to have to figure out how this works.
  7. File stipend collateral paperwork - Service Coordinator
  8. State determine final subsidy payment and schedules subsidy negotiation with foster parent. - We have been in this step since June 6, 2012.  Both service coordinators have tried to get a status update in the last couple of weeks and their emails and calls have gone unanswered.
  9. Select adoption attorney - Mom - I can do this.  I just have to find the paperwork I got from CASA with the recommendations.
  10. Prepare adoption paperwork - Adoption Attorney - He is on vacation this week so hopefully he can wrap up the paperwork
  11. File adoption paperwork at courthouse - Adoption Attorney - Ideally this would get done on June 21, 2012, the first available day it can happen. - This did not happen since the subsidy is not completed.  It will not happen until two weeks after subsidy negotiation is completed and signed and at this time there is no tentative date for the meeting. - This could happen by the end of July.
  12. Wait 30 - 90 days - Everyone  Wait 4 to 8 weeks.  I was wrong about the days.
  13. Adoption hearing - Everyone - There will probably be two of these, because the boys have different judges and are on different court dockets.  The boys really want them to be on the same day, but I don't think we have much control over that.  Ideally they would at least be in the same week.
  14. Big party - Everyone - no details yet, still wondering what this should be.  Younger Boy will want a big party...Middle Boy will want to be a small family celebration, because he doesn't like the attention drawn to him.
The closer we get to adoption the worse behaviors get in our home.  The boys are expecting a magic wand to wave over us at the hearing, but it isn't likely to happen.
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