Laura and Casey Wieck were eager to adopt a 6-month-old baby, and used Zoom to make things official amid the COVID-19 epidemic.
. We went to lunch with her, a social worker, and the head of the adoption agency to meet," she explained."We clicked from the beginning and she chose us to be the parents. I'm forever grateful to James's birth mom for making such a loving, empowered choice. She invited us to come to the doctors appointments. We even got to be there for the sonogram where they did the gender reveal.
"While the process had been smooth up until that point, in the back of my mind, I couldn't stop thinking, 'It's not final until it's final,'" she recalled."In early March, we got a message from our lawyer saying that we may need to reschedule our court date. At the end of the email, he said there was a possibility that they may set up a teleconference for the hearing.
Judge Thomas O'Diam agreed to have a virtual hearing — one of the first of its kind — and naturally, Laura and Casey were incredibly grateful."When we got the notification that the hearing would proceed via Zoom, we were so thankful," Laura said."It wasn't until we got on the actual call and heard the judge talking that I finally relaxed and realized that it was actually happening.
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