Finalization Update 2

So I mentioned a couple months ago that we were waiting for a June court date which has come and gone. That was for LDS Family Services to finally terminate any paternal right claims for Bailey. Now that is over so we can now finally petition the court for the adoption. Our lawyer (finally) drew up the paperwork and we went in to sign it. If all things went as planned his secretary filed it on Friday and we should have our court date next week, that is we will know when it it not that it will actually take place next week.

A quick aside on our lawyer. We got a referral for him when we were first going to need him. Jenn met him in his office and they discussed the fees ($500 plus filing fees). Great he was retained. Since that time he has been terrible about returning our calls. After we found out from LDS Family Services that they had sent him the paperwork that he needed we waited what we felt was a reasonable amount of time, a week and called to follow up, no answer and no call back. Jenn left numerous messages on both his voicemail and with his secratary, none of which were returned. We finally got a message from him asking us to call back which we did twice a day for about a week before we finally got in touch with him. He actually said to Jenn, "Now I don't remember what we worked out. Was I doing this for a fee or pro bono?" My wife is an honest women so she explained the fee agreement to which he responded "That sounds fair to me". Needless to say we have not been inspired with a lot of confidence. I understand that this is an easy deal for him but we retained him as a professional and I don't think that expecting a little professionalism is that unreasonable. We will probably be finding another lawyer for the next adoption.