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dee3970
I will make this as breif and concise as possible.
I live in Texas. I want to adopt a child who is now 13 and has been living with me for 11 years.he is not related to me by blood.
Here is the story.
I was operating a homebased daycare center. I had been keeping this baby in my home for about 9 months. He was living with a family friend at that time. The friend got to where she could she could no longer take care of him and gave him back to his maternal grandpa. ( mom had abandonded him at 1 mo old and dad was in prison)
The granpa did not want him anymore so I called the granpa( who I had never met ) and asked if we could have him, I wanted to adopt him, because I was already very attatched to him. He was 2 yrs old then. The granpa (who had never even met me) broguht the little boy to me at dropped him off and left. He has only seen him 3 times sinse then and the last time was 6 yrs ago. We tried through two different lawyers to adopt him but have had no luck. The bio mom has never been back and the dad is still in prison and refuses to give up rights. He wasnt the boy to go live with his mom who has nevr met this child before. we have spent 12000.00 trying to adopt him but cant find a competant lawyer to help us. we have never even been to court over this.
We gave up on getting to adopt him but he relly desperatly wants to at least change his name so that it is legally our last name. He is now 13 yrs old. Is there anything that can be done to help us?