The appellants were granted extensions and took almost 9 months to file the briefing.
We get 30 days to respond.
This includes hiring an additional attorney who specializes in appeals, and dissect the 1400 page transcript from the hearing.
The appeal itself (minus the zillion pages of footnotes and cross references to the transcripts) is 192 pages long. I read that, today, and relived every terrible, gaslighting, vilifying, inhumane part of this what-could-be-a beautiful and redemptive adoption story.
It’s all just so unfathomable to me that children can be cast as casualties in the vindication and self aggrandizement of a system.
If the system WORKED, there would be no NEED for vindication or aggrandizing.
Be kind to me for the next 30 days, and grant me grace. We are quite literally surviving a very calculated and very personal attack. On my family, my mothering, my intelligence, my home, my stability, my religion, my ability to keep children safe.
I cannot legally share details, so please don’t ask. Just, be kind. And pray for my family, please.
That’s all.
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