After a rough weekend with both Sofi very sick and me falling ill, we have made it through and are starting to have alot of fun and getting out and about. She is still suffering for a really bad chest congestion, but she is getting more energetic. And keeping me on my toes.
She was missing the ashram and all the people and kids, and has enjoyed going off and playing with the kids on the few occassions we have had to go back to deal with paperwork. But also fine to leave. Sofi is pretty adaptable which is great.
It took another week chasing the ashram people to essentially just give us all the papers I had sent them originally. They are really unbelievably obstreperous and don't know when to just give it up! But we have now met with the lawyer, and got to give him the papers yesterday. The pleadings were drafted in a day and ready to be filed tomorrow! Hopefully there won't be any problems getting it filed. I can't believe there is a chance it will be filed before Diwali but it's a possibility. If that happens, we go to court on Thursday for the 1st hearing, which is essentially just to get a date for our 1st real substantive hearing.
In the case, I am the Petitioner, askign the court to declare me Sofi's mother. We have pleaded in the alternative HAMA, GAWA and JJ Act just to be on the safe side, but we are hoping it will be approved under JJ Act as that will be a proper adoption Deed at the end. The 1st real hearing will be for the ashram to respond that they do not object. The hearing after that is for the statements of the parties. And the final hearing is for arguments. And if all goes well, then we will be given the adoption order, and finally the adoption Deed. We probably won't get the 1st substantive hear
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