I am so excited - we finally got our court date for Terra's adoption. In 9 days she will FINALLY be our forever daughter. (not that she isn't already)
November 16th can't come soon enough.
I love the idea of going to court and being part of the ceremonial aspect of it. Most places won't even let you appear before the judge, they just mail you out there papers. Nothing big. Our court gives us the option. With Chance we had to wait 5 weeks for a date, Joe and Manny we waited 2 weeks. And with Terra we don't have any wait. The Judge has not been in for 6 weeks. And his first day back, the very first thing he is doing at 9am is our adoption. I am so excited.
I also LOVE the fact that both mine and Andrew parents, my sister and her 5 kids have all made it out to each adoption. That they take the 2 hour (one way) drive to join us in this special day. My brother in law (sisters husband) made it out for Chance's, And Andrew's brother was able to make it out to Joe and Manny. But I am sure if they did not have work obligations they would have been there with us too. I know they were there in spirit!
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
court
Well this is a two part post - both having to deal with court.
The first part, I am very frustrated with how long it is taking to finalize Terra's adoption (she has been with us for almost 11 months now!). I thought for sure it would have been finished this summer and we were going to have a beach party to celebrate - well that's NOT going to happen now. Children's Aid said they sent our paper work to court on August 10th. Now with Chance's adoption we had a court date within a month. With Joe and Manny's adoption this past February we had a court date in LESS THEN TWO WEEKS. So I thought for sure by the end of August.
The second part is that I was called for jury duty this week (at the same court where we do our adoptions). That was an interesting experience. Did you know that with the accused in the room they call each potential juror by the FIRST, MIDDLE and LAST name? So you know, when you convict him he knows who to go after!!! I thought they would ask you questions, your thoughts on certain topics. Nope, they call you to the front. They say "juror look at the accused, accused look at juror". Then the two lawyers either "challenge" or are "content". If one challenges, you are told to go and sit back you are out. If they are both content, you are now a jury member. And they do this until they get 12. There was 120 people that were potential jury" and they had their first 12 in then 30 people. I wasn't even given a chance to see if I looked at him the right way or not. I REALLY REALLY wanted to be a jury!
Anyways, back to the first part:
I figured since I was there I would go and ask what the status is of our paperwork and get rough idea how long it'll be. Well the guy at the court house we have dealt with in the past was there so he remembered who I was. He went and checked our file and there was NOTHING. No paper work or anything. I told them that it was sent August 10th and he went and looked somewhere else and still nothing. So I came back and e-mailed our adoption worker. So she confirmed it was sent Aug 10th, and she'll talk to her supervisor who called the court. Again, no paper work. So she called Purilator - and they confirmed they delivered. So they called court again and told them they better get looking for it because someone signed for it. So the next day they found it.
So.... We should have a court date SOON!!!!!!!!!
The first part, I am very frustrated with how long it is taking to finalize Terra's adoption (she has been with us for almost 11 months now!). I thought for sure it would have been finished this summer and we were going to have a beach party to celebrate - well that's NOT going to happen now. Children's Aid said they sent our paper work to court on August 10th. Now with Chance's adoption we had a court date within a month. With Joe and Manny's adoption this past February we had a court date in LESS THEN TWO WEEKS. So I thought for sure by the end of August.
The second part is that I was called for jury duty this week (at the same court where we do our adoptions). That was an interesting experience. Did you know that with the accused in the room they call each potential juror by the FIRST, MIDDLE and LAST name? So you know, when you convict him he knows who to go after!!! I thought they would ask you questions, your thoughts on certain topics. Nope, they call you to the front. They say "juror look at the accused, accused look at juror". Then the two lawyers either "challenge" or are "content". If one challenges, you are told to go and sit back you are out. If they are both content, you are now a jury member. And they do this until they get 12. There was 120 people that were potential jury" and they had their first 12 in then 30 people. I wasn't even given a chance to see if I looked at him the right way or not. I REALLY REALLY wanted to be a jury!
Anyways, back to the first part:
I figured since I was there I would go and ask what the status is of our paperwork and get rough idea how long it'll be. Well the guy at the court house we have dealt with in the past was there so he remembered who I was. He went and checked our file and there was NOTHING. No paper work or anything. I told them that it was sent August 10th and he went and looked somewhere else and still nothing. So I came back and e-mailed our adoption worker. So she confirmed it was sent Aug 10th, and she'll talk to her supervisor who called the court. Again, no paper work. So she called Purilator - and they confirmed they delivered. So they called court again and told them they better get looking for it because someone signed for it. So the next day they found it.
So.... We should have a court date SOON!!!!!!!!!
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