Billionaire, I Am Not Your Wife! novel Chapter 161

Custody Questions-1

Sedona’s POV

I started with the internet, which was where I started most things I needed to understand before I was ready to ask someone who knew me.

It was a Wednesday morning, eleven days after the park date had been successfully concluded.

My mother had gone to the farmer’s market, my father was in his study on a call with someone from the company, discussing stock exchanges and market stock prices, Cameron was at his own company working with Lucian helping in his PA duties, and I was in my childhood bedroom with my laptop and three hours of unscheduled time and a question I’d been carrying for weeks, a question that had been sitting with me from the first day I had spoken to Nick and promised that I would make plans to see him.

Right now, I had no right to see my son or even talk to him without his father’s permission and knowing Logan, the only way he would let this happen is if I come back home, back to his wife and taking care of his house and I refused to be that woman anymore, that doormat. Which meant that I had to become creative and figure out a way out of this mess.

Parental rights relinquishment, Illinois.

I typed it into the search bar and waited as it loaded and then brought out answers that I needed.

The results were what legal results usually were-dense, precise in places and vague in others. I read through several articles, several law firm summaries, several explanations that were accessible and practically bewildering.

Voluntary giving away of parental rights was, as a legal matter, was designed to be difficult to undo.

It was designed that way deliberately, because the situations in which it was used were situations where the court thought of the best place for a child to be in and grow up comfortably, it didn’t have the condition that I was met, someone who had given up her right because she assumed she wouldn’t make it..

The law didn’t distinguish between those situations.

Opened it again. Searched for family law firms in Seattle with experience in parental rights cases.

I called on Thursday.

The firm was called Hendricks and Park, which I’d chosen from three possibilities based on the recommendation and reviews from other clients who had used them and had good things to say.

The paralegal’s name was Janet. She had the voice of someone who’d been doing intake calls for family law cases long enough to have developed a specific combination of professionalism and warmth-not performing warmth, just allowing it to be present alongside the professional scaffolding.

I explained the situation.

Not all of it- just the major points, that I discovered I had cancer, found my husband unfaithful and divorced him, signed my rights to my kid in case I died and then went for treatment and was lucky enough to get better, I also spoke about the fact that my child had maintained contact with me and expressed ongoing attachment and I had the finances to backup taking care of a child. I had house, money, and availability.