For the past few months my husband and I have been working on our case for step-parent adoption and termination of parental rights based on abandonment and abuse of my son. We cannot afford an attorney so we have been using every bit of education and resources we have ever obtained in our lifetime to have this case heard in Circuit Court in Florida. We were left dumbfounded as we were denied a hearing based on lack of jurisdiction (the other party lives in Michigan) but was told to consult an attorney for the court could not give any more information. We had to go back to the drawing board. One might think that a process in a court system would only involve the individual parties bringing action against another which would not consist of
