"Baby Veronica"

shadypines

Very interesting story... Did any 1 follow this story ?

https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57604299/baby-veronica-handed-over-to-adoptive-parents-cherokee-nation-confirms/

shadypines

Nothing is right about this case..

Spin313

The article wasn't very clear...

If the father signed away his rights willingly, then it's a good thing she's with loving adoptive parents. If the mother gave the child up without the father's consent and that's why he was absent from the child's life, then I think it sucks that she was placed back with the adoptive family.

shadypines

Spin313 said:

The article wasn't very clear... If the father signed away his rights willingly, then it's a good thing she's with loving adoptive parents. If the mother gave the child up without the father's consent and that's why he was absent from the child's life, then I think it sucks that she was placed back with the adoptive family.

I think this part was by accident...

EMOmamma

I was just talking about this with some friends who are adoptive (and foster) parents.  The bio dad signed over the parental rights when he was deploying (military) so that the mom could make any decisions while he was gone.  Then the mom, who had full power, put the girl up for adoption.  Dad gets back, finds out about the adoption, which he never approved of but legally had given up his rights, and starts fighting to get her back.  

It gets really screwy with him essentially kidnapping her and declaring she's native american and there are old laws concerning adoption of native american children which he tried to use to get her back.  

shadypines

en.wikipedia is saying something totally different.... copy & paste....

A few months prior to the baby's birth, she began to work with an adoption attorney to place the child with Matt and Melanie Capobianco of South Carolina.^[24] Although Oklahoma law requires that an Indian tribe be notified, Maldonado's attorney misspelled Brown's name and provided an incorrect date of birth, so the tribe was not put on notice of the proposed adoption.^{[fn 3][26]} After receiving permission from Oklahoma authorities, based in part on the identification of the child as Hispanic instead of Native American, the Capobiancos took the child to South Carolina.^{[fn 4]} Four months after the birth of the child and just days from deployment to Iraq, Brown was served with notice of the proposed adoption.^[27] Brown signed the document, believing that he was relinquishing rights to Maldonado.^{[fn 5][27]} Brown, once he realized what he was signing, immediately tried to retrieve the document, and failing that, contacted the Judge Advocate General at Fort Sill for assistance.^[27] Seven days after being notified of the proposed adoption by the Capobiancos, Brown had obtained a stay of the adoption proceedings under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act^{[fn 6][27]} and he deployed with his Army unit to Iraq.^[27]

shadypines

Scratch that I guess he did... Oh this case is too darn much.....

thetheisens

I know there are some extra laws that go into adoption when the child is Native American. My mom's friend does foster care and has adopted several of her children and wanted to but could not adopt one child because he was Native American(he was returned to his mother and died in her custody, it was a terrible ordeal. Obviously this part has nothing to do with his mother being Native). There was also recently a case here where one of the reservations near here where picketing at the court house to get an adoption reserved. I don't much about the details, I just know it's different from other adoptions.

virgin4lyfe

Yeah, the articles I read about it said he signed away his rights because he thought she was going to stay with her bio mom, even though they weren't together anymore. Then when he realized the bio mom was putting her up for adoption, he was like wait I wanted her to stay with you, you shouldn't have done that and legalities ensue.
I'm not sure how credible those two articles necessarily were but one of them supposedly quoted someone in his family.

74dragonfly

I feel bad for the little girl. She is four right? She spent two years with AP then two years with birth father. Now back to AP. Poor little girl. How confusing.