Q: My sister and her husband returned their adopted daughter to children and youth services without notifying any family.
Several of us contacted children and youth services and expressed being kinship foster parents and kinship adoption as soon as we found out the child was placed into care. The caseworker is completely disregarding us as options even though we have had healthy, positive meaningful relationships with the child. What rights do aunts and uncles have in this situation? What should we do if we feel the caseworker is sabotaging our efforts to move forward with kinship care and adoptions? The caseworker has implied that the foster parents are a better choice than all the family members the child has had a positive relationship with over the past couple of years. One family member seems the best option for moving forward to adopt, but the caseworker keeps delaying the paper work and forms. We have already been excluded from the second hearing despite the caseworker knowing several family members have come forward to take the child into kinship foster care or adopt. What can we do?
A: It sounds like the one among you who you believe has the best chance should hire an attorney and go from there.
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