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A Letter Was Returned

If you remember part of our mediation agreement was that should the biological mother move she had to notify us within 30 days? We added this clause because of the fact that she has a history of disappearing for months on end and if she wants to show us and more importantly her kids that they mean something to her she will keep up her end of the agreement. If two letters get returned to us we had the legal right to stop with the updates. We have only sent one update so far and it has been returned to … Continue reading →

It’s Official She Relinquished

Visitations between Rebecca and her biological mother are over. The biological mother has agreed through mediation to voluntarily relinquish her parental rights to Rebecca. Now we have a mediated agreement in place but she still has to go to court to make it official. The CPS case workers have warned us that there is a chance that she could retract her agreement and that the mediation agreement is more of an honor agreement than a legally binding one. The court date was set for her to appear in front of a family court judge and tell him that she officially … Continue reading →

The Good Bye Video

Today is the day of the last visitation between Rebecca and her biological mother. Thanks to a successful mediation she has agreed to relinquish her parental rights in return for written updates on all three of her children each quarter, a picture and video of the kids once a year. We offered her the opportunity to make a video for the children to watch when they got older. We had hoped this video will allow her to tell the kids about herself. We thought it would be a great gift for the kids when they got older. They would have … Continue reading →