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Child Adoption Case Study

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On November 18, 2015, Mr. Marshall’s legal representative opening statement stating that the action of child support is being brought a great deal of time after the fact. He stated not sure why the mother waited this long to try to enforce this order. His witness will be the father, the alleged father, Mark Marshall.
Mr. Marshall’s legal representative revealed through questioning of the non-custodial parent (NCP), Mark Marshall, that he was married to a woman in Alabama in the 1990s; her name was Robin Sexton (now known as Robin Rushing) at the time. The NCP stated that during the course of his marriage, a child named Mathew Marshall was born on May 11, 1994. The NCP stated they divorced in Montgomery in 1995. He stated at the time the …show more content…

On June 8, 2015, the legal representative for the NCP contacted the office and requested that the office check into the adoption. At that time, the legal representative was told about the office contact with the CP and her statement. The representative stated they requested that both, the NPC and the legal representative provide a copy of the adoption order. The agency has yet to receive the adoption order. On September 29, 2015, the CP faxed the office a copy of a letter from her attorney, the Firm of Howell, Sarto & Howell, which was sent to the NCP on January 14, 1997, care of Ms. Susan McKitchen. In the letter, they asked that the NPC sign the consent to adoption. The CP also provided a letter dated February 23, 1997, a little over a month after the adoption letter from the attorney Julien Taylor, who had been retained by the NCP to discuss the possibility of obtaining visitation. The attorney also provided a letter from the Commonwealth of Virginia, where the CP had attempted to have the child’s name changed. The Commonwealth declined to do that on the birth certificate. As a copy of the court order, the CP submitted to have the child’s name change was insufficient. The CP provided a copy of what she called the order changing the child’s name. It was a petition to change the child’s name. The representative stated that to his knowledge, there is no document with a judge’s signature that changes the child’s name or ratify an adoption. The policies were followed with regards to the Affidavit of Past Due Support. If the parties can produce an adoption document, then that would change the balances, but at this point, the NCP says there was an adoption. The CP says there was not an adoption and the documents led me to believe that not only was there no adoption, the child’s name was not legally changed. The representative stated no further

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