[SistersHelp]

I dunno how to link back to the backstory so I'm starting fresh, like it's new. Except it's not new, it's been a year, four months, and seven days since our niece came here to live with us... first with her mother's consent as she attempted to seek rehabilitation for her various drug addictions. Then through a temporary ex-parte order granted by the courts to keep her safe while her mother threatened to move her back to her home city having not dealt with the addiction. Then... through the interim order that was determined by the Supreme Court to keep her here while her mother got booted from rehab again and again...

Eight rehabs later... it's time to seek Sole Custody, a final order that would put her in our custody, basically, for good. We've faced the fact that it's time to give this child a permanent and stable home and that this is our calling.

Our lawyer sent out the proposal for Sole Custody yesterday. She now has twenty days to respond.

I fully anticipate we will be going through a full trial.