Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

Myself and my boyfriend are involved in a case as a relative care giver to a one year old, since he was age 5mths. The current case plan is still in effect reunification concurrent goal adoption. The mother still continues to do drugs but she completed some of her case plan but not all of it, and still has sporatic visitation with the child,. The father is in jail, to be released sometime next year, but has not tried to have any contact with us are child he does receive the same paperwork we receive from DCF. My question is do we need to get a lawyer to represent us because the case plan is up in a few months,and we would have had the child for almost a year, and we want to make sure this does not keep going and going. We want to make sure the judge is made aware of what is going on, and also that we are informed about everything we need to be doing to make sure this child stay in a stable home. DCF did have us sign off on som paperwork that states our intition for adoption. The mother also know our goal, but once stated she wanted us to do guardianship because she is too young to be a mother and take care of her child needs, but then changed her mind to complete her case plan. I would like to know is there anything in the meantime that we should prepare for in the meantime.

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