Reply #74: I know that, but it DOES NOT MATTER in law [View All]

[MADem]

You can't be rewarded for perpetuating a fraud. And it is apparent that the adoptive parents had lousy legal representation--their lawyer knew the father was known, and also did not insure that the agency notified him. You don't take ANYONE's WORD for something as important as that. You gotta check off all the blocks; and the lawyer failed to do that. He should have been given a copy of the notification letter (gee, there wasn't one!) as well as the certified receipt notice (not one of those, either!).

Emotional appeals don't cut it. As I have said elsewhere, the best solution here is joint custody, if the two sides can come to an agreement. And some serious jail time for those who perpetuated this fraud.