Visitation Rights of a Teenage Adopted Relative

My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Tennessee

My niece was adopted by a foster care giver when she 9 years old. In the beginning before the adoption process was finalized the foster mother (eventually adopted mother) allowed communication and visitation between my niece and the rest of my family (excluding her biological parents). After she was adopted all communication ceased for no reason. I searched for years for my niece and finally found her on You Tube she was 14 by this time. My family and I reached out to her and she responded. For approximately a year we corresponded with her via online. She does not want to live with her adopted parent due to cruelty and mostly feeling unloved and out of place. Her biological mother (my sister) passed away tragically several years ago, both of her maternal grandparents are also deceased and sadly we do not know who her biological father is. How can I obtain legal visitation with my niece, her adopted mother does not want her to have any contact with us (for no other reason than she said it interferes with the bonding of her new family).

This is total garbage because she allowed contact in the beginning and then when she realized that my niece actually had a loving healthy relationship with her family she got jealous and nervous because my niece didn't want to live with her. This woman gets a social security check for my niece and I believe this is the only reason she doesn't want my niece to have any contact with us. This woman also had another daughter she adopted who didn't want to live with her either and she wound up leaving when she was 15 to go and live with her biological family She he did not interfere with her first adopted daughter leaving because there was no financial loss. This woman is so cold and heartless that she said she will drop my niece off to us when she turns 18. I am desperate to rescue my niece. I am willing to hire an attorney to fight this woman and prove she has been emotionally neglectful and emotionally abusive to my niece. Please help!

You have no more rights to contact this child than I do. If her MOTHER says NO, then NO it is. Keep it up, and MOTHER could get a restraining order against you.

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My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Tennessee
My niece was adopted by a foster care giver when she 9 years old. In the beginning before the adoption process was finalized the foster mother (eventually adopted mother) allowed communication and visitation between my niece and the rest of my family (excluding her biological parents). After she was adopted all communication ceased for no reason. I searched for years for my niece and finally found her on You Tube she was 14 by this time. My family and I reached out to her and she responded. For approximately a year we corresponded with her via online. She does not want to live with her adopted parent due to cruelty and mostly feeling unloved and out of place. Her biological mother (my sister) passed away tragically several years ago, both of her maternal grandparents are also deceased and sadly we do not know who her biological father is. How can I obtain legal visitation with my niece, her adopted mother does not want her to have any contact with us (for no other reason than she said it interferes with the bonding of her new family). This is total garbage because she allowed contact in the beginning and then when she realized that my niece actually had a loving healthy relationship with her family she got jealous and nervous because my niece didn't want to live with her. This woman gets a social security check for my niece and I believe this is the only reason she doesn't want my niece to have any contact with us. This woman also had another daughter she adopted who didn't want to live with her either and she wound up leaving when she was 15 to go and live with her biological family She he did not interfere with her first adopted daughter leaving because there was no financial loss. This woman is so cold and heartless that she said she will drop my niece off to us when she turns 18. I am desperate to rescue my niece. I am willing to hire an attorney to fight this woman and prove she has been emotionally neglectful and emotionally abusive to my niece. Please help!

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Legally her parents don't have to allow any of you to talk to her. You're not going to get legal visitation - you legally aren't anything to her and haven't been for awhile. When she's 18 she can see whoever she wants.

If you think she's being abused report it to CPS.

You can believe all you want - but they have had her for five years now. Of course she says they're horrible - she's a teenager.

I doubt this other girl just up and left back to her biological family. You have no idea what is going on. If you don't watch yourself, you can find yourself in a heap of trouble legally.

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My question involves a child custody case from the State of: Tennessee
My niece was adopted by a foster care giver when she 9 years old. In the beginning before the adoption process was finalized the foster mother (eventually adopted mother) allowed communication and visitation between my niece and the rest of my family (excluding her biological parents). After she was adopted all communication ceased for no reason. I searched for years for my niece and finally found her on You Tube she was 14 by this time. My family and I reached out to her and she responded. For approximately a year we corresponded with her via online. She does not want to live with her adopted parent due to cruelty and mostly feeling unloved and out of place. Her biological mother (my sister) passed away tragically several years ago, both of her maternal grandparents are also deceased and sadly we do not know who her biological father is. How can I obtain legal visitation with my niece, her adopted mother does not want her to have any contact with us (for no other reason than she said it interferes with the bonding of her new family). This is total garbage because she allowed contact in the beginning and then when she realized that my niece actually had a loving healthy relationship with her family she got jealous and nervous because my niece didn't want to live with her. This woman gets a social security check for my niece and I believe this is the only reason she doesn't want my niece to have any contact with us. This woman also had another daughter she adopted who didn't want to live with her either and she wound up leaving when she was 15 to go and live with her biological family She he did not interfere with her first adopted daughter leaving because there was no financial loss. This woman is so cold and heartless that she said she will drop my niece off to us when she turns 18. I am desperate to rescue my niece. I am willing to hire an attorney to fight this woman and prove she has been emotionally neglectful and emotionally abusive to my niece. Please help!

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1) This girl is NOT your niece. She is NO RELATION TO YOU LEGALLY.
2) You are looking at getting a restraining order against you for interfering with this child and her family. Of which you are not.
3) Keep it up and you could end up in jail.

What the others are telling you is correct. Legally you no longer have any kind of kinship relationship to the child. You have no standing to bring any legal action forward at all, and in fact could get in a great deal of trouble if you were to do anything other than tell her that she has to obey her mother. Again, when she is 18 she can spend all the times she wants with her biological family. However until then, she stays put where she is.