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When you include Lawyers For Children in your estate plans, your generosity ensures NYC's most vulnerable children in crisis continue to have a voice in their futures by providing free, high quality, comprehensive social work and legal services. Thank you for ensuring that LFC can continue to protect rights and change lives well into the future.
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“WHEN ISAAC WAS ONLY TWO HIS MOTHER, WHO SUFFERED FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA, LEFT HIM WITH AN ELDERLY NEIGHBOR AND NEVER RETURNED.”
When Isaac* was only two his mother, who suffered from schizophrenia, left him with an elderly neighbor and never returned. He was placed into foster care and Lawyers For Children was assigned to the case. Isaac's LFC social worker immediately began contacting members of his extended family, and soon reached his grandmother in Georgia, who was shocked to learn that her grandson had been abandoned. She expressed her desire to care for and adopt him as soon as possible.
After the LFC social worker went to Georgia to evaluate the home, Isaac’s LFC attorney went to court to obtain an order permitting him to move to his grandmother’s home. Once he was settled and his LFC social worker confirmed that he was doing well, their LFC attorney expedited the filing of an adoption petition.
At the eleventh hour the agency informed LFC that the adoption had collapsed because the grandmother no longer wanted to adopt. LFC quickly ascertained that the grandmother desperately wanted to adopt but simply did not have plane fare to travel to NYC for the final hearing. LFC’s client emergency fund paid the airfare, the adoption was finalized, and Isaac has been thriving in his grandmother’s care ever since.
