Our son is 7 months old and we've had him since day 1. His mom and birth dad of record both signed the consent to adopt 2 days after his birth, but I called our attorney to check in a couple weeks ago, and he stil hasn't gotten a court date to terminate the parental rights. He said he was still waiting on the court to schedule. This seems really odd to me, that it's taking so long.
How long did yours take?
ETA: I'm not talking about the end of the revocation of consent to adopt. I know that's different in each state, but is based on when the parents sign consent. In Pennsylvania, you still have to have a hearing to make the TPR legally binding after the revocation period is up. Our lawyer sucks because J is nearly 8 months old, the consent was signed by both parents right after birth, and he STILL hasn't applied for a court date to officially terminate parental rights.
Re: how long for TPR?
TPR for DD's birthmom, per state laws, was 30 days after she signed (which was 72 hours after hospital discharge)
DD's birthfather wanted nothing to do with anything, so we had to wait for court to do TPR. And he had to be served. And they had to use some clause in state law to get that done. And our lawyer's paralegal was in a car crash with head injuries, so his office was being run by temps. So that took 6 months.
Finalization was 30 days after TPR on bio dad
Finalization takes about 6 or 7 months for us.
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I called again Friday, left a message, and didn't hear back from him, so I called my social worker and she said she'd run it up the ladder. I called again today and he said he was just about to call me.
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He said he finally got a court date for next month. I wonder how long it would have taken if my social worker hadn't complained to the agency director? He also mentioned that after the 30 day appeal wait is up, he'll file the adoption petition immediately, but the family court only does adoptions twice per month, so we're "kind of at their mercy as far as a date." Sounds like a built-in excuse to take forever with that, unfortunately.