Legal Question in Family Law in Utah

Revoke a foreign adoption

Do you have any knowledge or record of a case where an adoption was allowed to be revoked due to serious behavioral problems of the children adopted. The adoptive family in this situation was seriously jepodised and lives threatened because of these behavioral problems. The children are Russian adopted two and a half years ago and have attachment disorder.


Asked on 7/25/99, 9:28 pm

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Jonathan Schiff Self employed

Re: Revoke a foreign adoption

To answer your first question. Yeah plenty. In the 8 years I represented Children Services, I processed many "disrupted" adoptions, although none that were foreign. It's a rough situation, especially with kids carrying the diagnosis of attachment disorder. What it basically says is that there is no chance for a normal parent child relationship. But (and I assume these are now older children) the consequences of a disrupted adoption are pretty grim. Especially when these kids begin to hit adolescent they most likely (and again I am taling in relative ignorance of international procedures or those in Utah)will live out the remainder of their minority in foster or group care, slowly graduating to the criminal justice system. But I guess at some point you have to think about saving who you can save. I don't envy anyone having to make those kinds of choices.

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Answered on 7/28/99, 5:17 pm


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