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<blockquote data-quote="ksm" data-source="post: 484379" data-attributes="member: 12511"><p>Since this ended up being a private adoption - we have no state/government resouces. It is a long story, our GDG's are tribal members of an Alaskan federally recognized tribe. There is a federal law (ICWA) Indian Child Welfare Act that has rules that has to be followed on Indian Children - because in the past, Indian children were adopted out from their family and relatives at a much higher rate. To terminate the parents rights is very difficult. So instead of doing things by the book - SRS threatened that when the parental rights were terminated, they would place the girls with strangers, even though they had lived with us for over a year, and we had always been very active in their life since they were born. Then the judge asked the parents if they would sign a form naming us the adoptive family. My son and his ex agreed. Then we were told it was a private adoption and we had to pay all the atttorney fees, lost their medical card and the monthly benefits they should receive until they are 18. </p><p></p><p>By doing this, the state attorney did not have to follow ICWA law, the judge didn't have to have a drawn out courtroom trial, SRS wasn't responsible for all the ICWA laws they had broken. But the girls (and us) lost out on all benefits. Can you tell I am still mad 7+ years later??? Even a couple hundred extra a month would make a big difference in what we could spend on activities, sports, clothes, tutors, trips with the girls. KSM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ksm, post: 484379, member: 12511"] Since this ended up being a private adoption - we have no state/government resouces. It is a long story, our GDG's are tribal members of an Alaskan federally recognized tribe. There is a federal law (ICWA) Indian Child Welfare Act that has rules that has to be followed on Indian Children - because in the past, Indian children were adopted out from their family and relatives at a much higher rate. To terminate the parents rights is very difficult. So instead of doing things by the book - SRS threatened that when the parental rights were terminated, they would place the girls with strangers, even though they had lived with us for over a year, and we had always been very active in their life since they were born. Then the judge asked the parents if they would sign a form naming us the adoptive family. My son and his ex agreed. Then we were told it was a private adoption and we had to pay all the atttorney fees, lost their medical card and the monthly benefits they should receive until they are 18. By doing this, the state attorney did not have to follow ICWA law, the judge didn't have to have a drawn out courtroom trial, SRS wasn't responsible for all the ICWA laws they had broken. But the girls (and us) lost out on all benefits. Can you tell I am still mad 7+ years later??? Even a couple hundred extra a month would make a big difference in what we could spend on activities, sports, clothes, tutors, trips with the girls. KSM [/QUOTE]
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