With Paul, it has not been final. I do not know when it was final for Korea, but for the U.S. and state laws - it has not been final and we had to have three follow up home study visits, and then petition to adopt him in state court. That was filed last week and the agencies have worked in a timely manner to get the homestudies written, approved and a court report written and filed. We have hired an experienced adoption attorney who knows the courts, system and judges and guardian ad litems. Since I work with attorneys I thought I would save money and utilize one of my awesome attorneys but with the end of the year approaching we thought it best to go with someone who knows the ins and outs - and since we do not have time for mistakes. I do not mind mistakes, but we do not have time for them.
Anyway, we are overjoyed to announce that he is going to be OURS officially, legally and all the other 'ly's there are. He has definitely been OURS in our hearts and minds since 3/31/08 but it will feel good to get it all finalized. We have so much to be thankful this season - two beautiful children and so much more.
If anyone in the family or any of our dear friends are interested in being with us on our adoption finalization day - let us know. Details won't be posted here of course.
Blessings to all -- for we are truly blessed!
Vonda
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We also have our court date to finalize Aidan's re-adoption (ridiculous in my mind, people don't have to re-birth their bio kids if they have them out of the country!) next week. Like you, I'm glad to get it all over with.
Lisa
Congrats. We finalized today. It was a fun experience and we got a video of it from the judge afterwards. Let us know how it goes.
Congratulations (though I can't believe it works that way)!!
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