When you have a child in your care and custody and the parent has left for an extended period of time it is important for you to obtain some type of guardianship of that child.
If no guardianship is established you as the caregiver of that child cannot: obtain medical care, register that child for school, and you do run the risk of that parent coming back and claiming kidnapping.
Cover your butt and get the correct paperwork on file with the court in your county. If you need help with these papers please let us know!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
God Blessed the Broken Road
Some of you know that we returned to court in February to decide if the court would in fact terminate Dawn's parental rights. The day was pretty relaxed on the most part. I went to work as usual what did I have to worry about?
Our case was solid she is a crappy parent that ignores her child and expects her to love her no matter what; and when the child decides she is fed up with the whole situation you attempt to buy her things to shut her up. Who wouldn't want a mom like that? (Raises hand slowly but confidently)
There is no excuse for Dawn's behavior other than the fact that she is fighting on her behalf and not her child.
In any event the trial started...
Anthony and I both testified providing the information we thought necessary that would show the judge that Dawn has in fact abandoned Danae and that letting me adopt her would be the best thing.
Apparently in the state of California it is okay to be a crappy parent and go years without seeing your kid. I don't agree. We lost. Can we say @#!*% !!!
Yeah we lost the battle but we also won the war. We left with nothing less than what we walked in with. At the end of the day Dawn still had no additional custody or visitation rights and Danae still had no interest in seeing or communicating with her.
While the situation was bittersweet we left with smiles on our faces after the judge begged her to "do the brave and selfless thing" and terminate her rights of her own volition. She didn't agree. Big surprise!
Our case was solid she is a crappy parent that ignores her child and expects her to love her no matter what; and when the child decides she is fed up with the whole situation you attempt to buy her things to shut her up. Who wouldn't want a mom like that? (Raises hand slowly but confidently)
There is no excuse for Dawn's behavior other than the fact that she is fighting on her behalf and not her child.
In any event the trial started...
Anthony and I both testified providing the information we thought necessary that would show the judge that Dawn has in fact abandoned Danae and that letting me adopt her would be the best thing.
Apparently in the state of California it is okay to be a crappy parent and go years without seeing your kid. I don't agree. We lost. Can we say @#!*% !!!
Yeah we lost the battle but we also won the war. We left with nothing less than what we walked in with. At the end of the day Dawn still had no additional custody or visitation rights and Danae still had no interest in seeing or communicating with her.
While the situation was bittersweet we left with smiles on our faces after the judge begged her to "do the brave and selfless thing" and terminate her rights of her own volition. She didn't agree. Big surprise!
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