Travel for Court

Well Hello again. We are back for a little while.

I would first like to start off by explaining one of my last entries, stating we had family issues back home that we needed to take care of. Those of you that know us very well know we have 2 dogs and they are also like our children. When we found out that they were having some really big issues back home, we got a little worried about them. Hercules as most of you know he is getting up there in the years and is having those old age problems. Well we thought we had them under control but we found out that we were wrong. Now we have a mess to clean up at home once all this is over. Then Angle got a really bad infection in her neck. It is cleared up now, but the vet said it was a hot spot and is cause by allergies, so not sure if it is gone or not. We also think it could have been the stress of us not being here for 5 weeks. We are hoping with this next trip since it is so short that they will both be fine.

Also I want to explain what happen in Kazakhstan. Recently things have changed with the international adoption laws and with that, the process has also changed. What once was to be a 5 week trip with our 15 days of bonding and our court date included is now a 2 trip process. We had our bonding time and Olga turned in our dossier to the court but we were missing one form that the judge is now requiring before they set the dated for court. The form was a letter letting the judge know that Baby Larrick had been on the registry for the 6 months that they require them to be on before they can be adopted internationally. So we had to wait for them to come from the capital in Kazakhstan. That took us about 4 days to get taken care of. Then we found out that the judge had set the court date for the 20th of June. So we now have to make 3 total trips to complete the process. From what we can see from our experience and what we heard from 3 other families, the judge in Karakastek is setting court dates at least 30 days after bonding. Which we have heard is because of the new Hague Act. We don’t have a direct answer as to why it is taking so long for court, but that is just what someone has told us.

Well we leave in about 24 hours to fly back over for our court date. We will be arriving in Almaty around midnight on the 18th. We have a meeting with our translator and then we will get to go see Baby Larrick on June 19th. We are really excited to see him. I hope he remembers who we are. We then have court on June 20th hope all goes well there. We will keep you all updated once we get over there. Then on June 21st which is our anniversary we will go back to the baby house and see Baby Larrick. As long as every thing goes good at court we will be coming home on June 22nd.
Well that is what is new on our end of things, we hope everyone is doing well. We will keep everyone updated. We will let you know when we arrive in Almaty.