mcclurebryant
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? CA
We are trying to adopt a grandson. My daughter wants to give her consent but she saw a psychiatrist when she was a teenager. The adoption worker says she has to have a competancy evaluation. This will cost a bunch. We want to go the abandonment route but I think the worker said we would have to have a lawyer to do this b/c he has to use some legal numbers b/c of the compentancy thing? I think she is making it very hard for us. I have been told by a paralegal that she tends to make up her own rules. We have raised this boy for 10 years and just adopted our daughters 2 year old through a CPS process. Any comment or suggestion on the abandonment or needing to get a lawyer? A paralegal says she can file abandonment forms and let the judge decide but I don't want to spend money and then the psych thing come up.
We are trying to adopt a grandson. My daughter wants to give her consent but she saw a psychiatrist when she was a teenager. The adoption worker says she has to have a competancy evaluation. This will cost a bunch. We want to go the abandonment route but I think the worker said we would have to have a lawyer to do this b/c he has to use some legal numbers b/c of the compentancy thing? I think she is making it very hard for us. I have been told by a paralegal that she tends to make up her own rules. We have raised this boy for 10 years and just adopted our daughters 2 year old through a CPS process. Any comment or suggestion on the abandonment or needing to get a lawyer? A paralegal says she can file abandonment forms and let the judge decide but I don't want to spend money and then the psych thing come up.
