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When a child leaves the parental home, kinship care must be explored by law, but is it? Guest author Kim Combes looks at practices and the value of family members in a child's life.

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Hi
I am an parental aunt who has been trying to adopt my niece for 3 yrs. It has been a very difficult
3yrs.I was glad to read the article, Kinship Care and Strings Attached. I know there has to be alot of us relatives trying to do what is right and would love to care for our families' children.
I wish there was more help for us and those others in the same situation were in. We received a letter stating that the judge hearing our niece's case wants to wait for a Superior Court to decide a case of an aunt and uncle rights standing to adopt or not, before she will consider us having standing for adoption for our niece. Any information anyone has that might help would be much appreciated.

I have custody of my 2 year old niece and and expecting to have permanent custody in July and plan to begin adoption as soon as possible. Does anyone have any advice on the process or what to expect?