Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

I placed my daughter up for an open adoption with my cousins(not blood related) in June of 2008. I was fifteen at the time and I was on and off again with the baby's father. At the time of signing over my parental rights I was under stress due from my baby's father. I didn't want to give my daughter up but the bay's father threatened to not stick around and pay child support. My cousins, or the people who adopted my daughter had promised my mother and I that they would keep us updated with pictures and such. I had warned my mother that they weren't going to keep they're promise. But they kept they're promise for about a month and then stopped talking to us and stopped updating us. Its been since August of 2008 that I've heard from them. Now I'm married to a man in the Military and he makes good money each month. I was wondering if there is a way that we can either fight in court to get my daughter back for good or try to make the adoption an actual open adoption.


Asked on 12/28/09, 9:24 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Alan Wagner Wagner, McLaughlin & Whittemore P.A.

If you gavce up your parental rights, then that is the end of it. The fact that you were under stress (most people are) is not a sufficient reason to take the child away from the only people they have known as his parents. You were very young; still are. It sounds like adaption was the right thing and you should be proud of yourself that you had the strength to do so. The child is almost certainly better off where he is.

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Answered on 1/09/10, 11:37 am


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