Source: Tulsa World, Okla.迷你倉價錢Aug. 01--A hearing Wednesday afternoon in South Carolina finalized Baby Veronica's adoption and determined how she will transition from her father's home to her adoptive parents home.Lawyer James Fletcher Thompson said Wednesday that the adoption was now complete and a plan was in place to transfer the almost-4-year-old child from the custody of her father.The hearing proceeded as scheduled despite a last-minute lawsuit requesting an injunction.A Cherokee Nation-appointed attorney filed the civil lawsuit in South Carolina's federal district court on behalf of Baby Veronica alleging her rights have been violated by the court's decision to not allow a hearing of her best interests before Wednesday's hearing on the terms of her transition.Lori Alvino McGill, an attorney for the birth mother, said the lawsuit's requested injunction on the transition hearing was denied Wednesday afternoon.After the World spoke with McGill, who was not in court Wednesday, the judge imposed a gag order on all parties barring them from making any details of Wednesday's proceedings public.The hearing ended about an hour and a half after it began.The lawsuit filing and press release announcing the lawsuit came as the legal parties representing her biological father, Dusten Brown, and her adoptive parents, Matt and Melanie Capobianco, entered the South Carolina family court on Wednesday.Richard Guest, a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund, said Oklahoma attorney Angel Smith, who filed the lawsuit on Veronica's behalf, was appointed by the Cherokee Nation last week and is representing Veronica as a Cherokee citizen.Smith could not be reached immediately for comment.Guest said Smith was appointed in anticipation of future litigation returning to Oklahoma and Cherokee Nation courts.Chrissi Nimmo, Cherokee Nation assistant attorney general, backed the call for a best-interest hearing saying Brown is the best father for Veronica."This decision was made without a hearing to determine what is in Veronica's current best interests and comes almost two years after the same family court found that Dusten Brown was a fit, loving parent ... Every parent in America should be terrified," Nimmo said.The Cherokee Nation, in Nimmo's statement, pledged to continue to support Brown.Four months after she was born, Brown agreed to give custody to the birth mother, who -- unbeknown to him, he maintains -- had put Veronica up for adoption.The Capobiancos raised Veronica from birth but lost custody when she was 2 years old.With help from the Cherokee Nation, Brown won custody in December 2011. But a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month sent the case back to South Carolina.McGill said another best-interest hearing would be redundant after the case was already argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court."The complaint filed against Judge (Daniel E迷你倉庫) Martin (Jr.) ... is nothing more than an unfortunate publicity stunt," McGill said. "This case can't be re-litigated in a different forum just because Mr. Brown and his supporters refuse to accept the result."The lawsuit came with a letter of support from a broad group of civil rights organizations, tribes, state officials and others. The letter is supported by the office of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, New Mexico Attorney General Gary K. King, the Child Welfare League of America, Cherokee Nation Chief Bill John Baker and others.The lawsuit complains on one count of due process violation and one count of violating the Indian Child Welfare Act."As a matter of law, the actions of the state courts of South Carolina have deprived the plaintiff (Veronica) of a meaningful opportunity to be heard on the matter of her current best interests before being transferred from her father to an adoptive couple," according to the lawsuit.Though Wednesday's hearing was closed to the media and the judge imposed a gag order on the parties involved, a transition plan submitted to the court detailed a transition between the two families.The plan calls for a transition period of a week, when Veronica will be weaned away from Brown slowly -- starting with play dates for the adoptive couple before phasing toward play dates with Brown and then the adoptive parents returning with Veronica to South Carolina.The Associated Press contributed to this story.Action since Supreme Court rulingSince June 25, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the adoptive parents in the Baby Veronica case, the following court actions have been filed.July 9Cherokee Nation District Court officials confirm Dusten Brown's mother and father, Tommy and Alice Brown, had filed for adoption of Veronica -- in line with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissenting opinion.July 17Cherokee Nation courts name several of Dusten Brown's family members as joint guardians, giving them the power to make legal and medical decisions for Veronica and complicating the issue for South Carolina courts.July 24Christy Maldonado, Veronica's birth mother, files lawsuit with several other woman who have given children up for adoption to declare part of the Indian Child Welfare Act unconstitutional.July 26Dusten Brown files petition with U.S. Supreme Court to review the case and require South Carolina courts to hold a best-interest hearing for Veronica.WednesdayPrior to a hearing on transition details for Veronica, a Cherokee Nation attorney appointed to Veronica files a federal lawsuit in South Carolina seeking to temporarily stop the hearing and hold a best-interest hearing. It was denied.Jarrel Wade 918-581-8367jarrel.wade@tulsaworld.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) Visit Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) at .tulsaworld.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存
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