Pushing Up Bluebonnets
“ ''It's Abby. Did I catch you at a bad time?'' ''No way,'' Penny said with a laugh. ''I was running around in circles trying to find the damn phone. What can I do you for?'' ''I need help with a case and I realize you can't search adoption files, but this particular person appeared in a man's life with his family name on her birth certificate. She told him she'd been adopted as a baby and was his biological granddaughter. In fact, the man's daughter's name was on that certificate.'' ''Bu...t that doesn't make sense if she was adopted. They put the adopted parents' names on the certificate, not the biological mother's name. Unless this woman went to court, had her adoption file opened and reclaimed her original birth certificate, that is.'' ''Exactly. If she didn't petition the court for her records, could she have been in foster care and not an adoption case?'' I said. ''For sure. We don't change their names—we keep their original birth certificates until they're officially adopted.'' ''Okay, you've given me a glimmer of hope here.MoreLess
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