WOrd is that the CCAA made it a wopping 6 days this month. So, the new estimate for us is summer/fall of 09 at that rate. I will have to say goodbye until 2009. I started a new full time job and am starting the homestudy gig, plus still helping hubbins with the mortgage biz. Throw in the holidays, Christmas parties and a road trip to Atlanta in a few weeks and I have no time to breathe......
So Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Toodles!
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It is a bit of a bummer huh... I don't blame you for the break but will talk at some stage... take care
Oh, I am going to be bummed! Hope you change your mind. Ana and Gigi
Seems like people are getting screwed all around!
New Guatemala adoption law approved
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer
GUATEMALA - Guatemalan legislators approved a new law Tuesday to tighten adoptions, while allowing pending adoptions — mostly to U.S. couples — to go through without meeting the stricter requirements.
The legislation had upset thousands of would-be parents who had invested their savings to adopt a child from Guatemala, which is second only to China in sending adoptive children to the United States. Many feared thousands of children would be left in limbo.
However, the law approved by Congress stipulates that pending adoptions, some 3,700 children already matched with prospective parents, will be allowed to move forward without being subject to the new rules.
The law, aimed at cleaning up an adoption process that critics say allows birth mothers to sell their babies, will take effect next year. It requires the signature of President Oscar Berger.
"Starting Dec. 31, the business of adoptions is over," said lawmaker Rolando Morales, one of the measure's biggest supporters.
Adoptions in Guatemala are now handled exclusively by notaries who work with birth mothers, determine if babies were surrendered willingly, hire foster mothers and handle all the paperwork.
Notaries charge an average of $30,000 for children delivered in about nine months — record time for international adoptions. The process is so quick that one in every 100 Guatemalan children now grow up as an adopted American; Guatemala sent 4,135 children to the U.S. last year.
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