Lux et umbra vicissum…

light and shadow by turn…

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Oh, how I love legalese…

February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Pardon me if this entry goes in circle. Eli is standing next to my chair saying, “Mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy…” It’s a little bit distracting. Oh, now he switched to, “Up up up up up…” So now he’ll be helping me type. 🙂 Here he is looking out from between Daddy’s knees:

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Anyway, back to my original post. Before we can do a whole lot in our second adoption, we need to finalize our first in Virginia. We were told by several people that it’s not hard to do it on your own and it’ll save you hundreds of dollars in lawyer fees. Great! The only problem is, no one seems to know exactly how to do it. You turn in some paperwork to the court, then they send something somewhere, and then you get a court date. Um… right.

Well, we found someone in our area (thank you so much Pastor and Mrs. Creech!) who recently went through this same process and were able to help us out a bit. They sent us the petitions they used to get a court date. Hallelujah! It can be accomplished! All I had to do was wade through the documents and change the information that was specific to their family into info for ours. Not too bad, huh? Except that by the end my eyes were going crossed over all of the “according to the statute” and “in compliance with Virginia law 4.9762.6583 7/8”. Oh well. We’re still in a much better place than we were a few days ago. 🙂 Now we just need to get them notarized and pull together a few other random papers, and we’ll be able to submit them to court!

Tags: Adoption

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  • 1 Sara // Mar 1, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    Oddly enough, I recognised those knees immediately.

    Doing some catch-up of my own. Will e-mail you or The Knees again soon!