matin melanie koppel bianco
adopted a baby girl back in two thousand nine but
four years later they were forced to give that baby grow up
uh... to the
biological father
so the biological mother wanted to put the baby up for adoption uh... she
didn't feel like she could take care of the baby
however act of father the biological father of the child was in iraq at the
time he was fighting the war
job and she also had the a different child from another mother i think he did
not have custody of when he found out that the baby was given up for adoption
he started fighting for custody
now under something known as the indian child where welfare act
uh... key
has the ability to get his biological daughter back
because he is part of something that is a cherokee nation
and um... i don't know yet so is that still controls for that's pretty ok yeah
so that because of that uh... indian child welfare welfare act of nineteen
seventy eight
uh... if you are part of the native tried
and uh... you fight for custody is much more likely that you will regain custody
of that child
uh... because this you know actors trying to keep uh... native american
families together
right and
uh... you know divided issue pass about there will always be in american kids
away from them
so uh... that's understandable but
it was a super say that is that the americans that makes the story
uh... you know even tougher i guess i mean you know because your heart goes
out the that everything is in iraq
and you know silly agreed to decision within
another in your heart also goes out to the that's been racing
over child for two years
so
what is the right way to go
i don't know how i wish i knew more information about
in the biological father i know that he was at home with his parents unki
how to child from a previous relationship but for some reason he
doesn't have custody av
uniindia doppler parents are so loving and and they've been with that
child-proof
for years they ray is not a little girl for four years and now that
four-year-old is being taken away from them
so idon't idon't know where i stand on this is one of the stories right hill
toward
it's a little stories that makes me angry because i'd feel like they're
isn't cut-and-dried solution to it
it's not a black-and-white issue
honorable swish
that the biological dad found of difference lucien this really easy to
say in really hard to do
because you know if he was not told that it's his kid
figure most of the status did in separate to it
that's where my petition is
on the other hand if somebody's raising kids were four years
you know what kind of damages due the kid alone not those parents
after they've given them a loving environment for four years
so so here's here's another act issue in the story that i think is important to
bring up
intent to violate the parents after the baby was born uh... word not any good
situation they didn't want to stay together and at the mother are says that
he had signed at pieper
that granted her full custody of the baby
sold since she had full custody
uh... she had the ability to give the baby up for adoption
however relevant however he is claiming that he did not signed that document
that he thought he was signing a document that indicated
that she was going to have sole custody of the baby says she could raise a baby
herself
and then maybe later on in the future they can work things out and get back
together ido self and buying a well that's also believable because i'm not
sure that you would assume
focus either one parent is a hero indicated option so
that's about as close to cases you could possibly have i'm really not sure which
way to go on to the right well i almost as if we have to be real judges and sort
of fake ones
recognizes
well i'm glad judge ed eight an appellate court judge has ruled that he
does have custody of his biological daughter
and uh... the couple unfortunately had to out so i don't know if it's
unfortunate that the couple had two
did the baby out and handed over to hand her over to the biological father