For only the first six months of Reese's life was she not a ward of the state of Indiana. Everything about her life has been monitored, reported, recorded and discussed by people who were paid to monitor her well-being. Everyone who loved her had to jump through many hoops just to be able to babysit, visit or stay the night. Trips to other states had to be approved by a judge and documents carried at all times, just in case of questioning. At one point this year, Reese and I had an Indiana DCS case-worker, two CASA volunteers, a foster certification specialist, an adoption family support specialist, and an attorney. That is a lot of people involved in one little person's life.
I received an email today from my attorney with this quote from the lawyer of Indiana's Department of Child Services that we have been working with "We moved for dismissal based on the documents you sent us earlier and it looks like the Court granted our motion and dismissed the case this morning." aka Reese is no long a ward of the state of Indiana! Yes, we saw a judge two weeks ago and I received my certified adoption decree a week ago but now the case is officially closed in Indiana.
I think we are really done now, finally. I am not holding my breath though.
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