The Smiths

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It appears people have been complaining to Dolce about having Healing Waters at their locations. A poster on Gabriel's facebook page (below) said she has called them again and they are in the process of severing all ties with Healing Waters, but it is taking longer than they hoped because they have been 'unavailable'. This would severely curtail/hurt their business as 3 of the 5 locations are Dolce locations.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=...d=251236072296

http://www.DolceSalonSpa.com
http://www.dolceco.com/businesses.html#waters

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This whole thing about Tammi doing an adult adoption of Elizabeth really bothers me - for a bunch of reasons.

I didn't know anything about it and have looked it up. Each state has different rules about it. These are supposed to be for Arizona:

http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/ar...-an-adult.html
http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/te...-an-adult.html

In Arizona, you do have to have a hearing. And adult adoption in TN looks really easy - you just basically have to say you want to do it and not be judged incompetent. It looks like in most states, it would be a whole lot easier if both the biological parents are deceased. It made me kind of ill to think of Tammi trying to adopt Elizabeth.

http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/ad...lt-person.html

Changes Effected by Adoption

In the same manner as child adoption, the adoption of an adult will result in changes.

* Severing parental relationships. An adoption creates a new parent-child relationship and severs the existing relationship with biological parents (or with the non-custodial biological parent only, in the case of stepparent adult adoption).
* New birth certificate. An amended birth certificate will be issued for the adopted person, showing the adoptive parent(s) as birth parents.
* Name change. The surname (last name) of the adopted person may be changed to that of the adoptive parent(s).
* Sealed records. Adoption records for adult adoptions appear to be treated the same as those for child adoptions in that the records pertaining to the adoption will be sealed according to state law, even though the parties to the adoption are adults and are aware of family details. If this is a matter of concern, parties to the adoption should keep copies of all documents relating to the adoption itself and life events prior to the adoption for safekeeping.

Also, it appears that if someone adopted you even as an adult and then claimed or showed you had mental problems, then you could end up in charge of their affairs? I don't know for sure. It is sometimes done because of the reverse, someone has diminished capacity and can't take care of themselves so there is an adult adoption so they can have insurance, etc..

I guess the biggest thing in this case would be that Tammi and Jack would end up with possible grandparental rights?


Map to Select Different State Adult Adoption laws

http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/ad...tate-laws.html

[JBean]

Please break this thread out in separate topics. thanks

[JBean]

If there any posts you would like us to pull out to start new threads let us know.