Legal Question in Family Law in Minnesota

Adoption never finalized

This is a Minnesota case, I now live in Wa but the divorce and all other procedings were in MN. There is a custody order, in which I currently have custody after his mother threw him out of her household under some bad circumstances, we believed his side of the story at the time and took him in , now we have found out it was all a lie, and I don't know what to do with him. He doesn't want to live with me or his mother, I feel he could be violent, mom claims he has been with her and frankly we are afraid to have him live in our home. I am feeling used and abused by the system and think that my ex knew the adoption had not gone through all the proper channels and did this with the intent to get me for money if he comes back to her, or to force me to parent him while she gets to refuse. I want whats best for him, but living with me doesn't seem to be it, she has stated that he will not be allowed to go back and live with her and that it is my problem now... she washes her hands of it.

Again, I started adoption proceedings to adopt him a few years ago but somehow it never got filed with the state and I can't even get his birth certificate because I am not his legal father yet I have been forced to take custody of him ??


Asked on 6/11/09, 12:21 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Christopher Steuart IT Forensics, Inc.

Re: Adoption never finalized

If this is important, you should retain a lawyer. You are never going to learn enough on free websites to figure out how to do what you need to do. You just need to get a lawyer licensed in Minnesota to handle this. (I'm not licensed in MN).

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Answered on 6/11/09, 10:23 pm


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