Finding our 6 year old daughter, what are our options?
My wife and I had a cryptic pregnancy 6 years ago that we were not aware of until the day she gave birth. At the time the situation at home was tough both financially, as well as there being several terminal illness in the family. It was also at the peak of the start of the pandemic
We truly regret giving her up for adoption. We have been thinking about her day and night for the past years and we have decided we want to figure out HOW to get an update, pictures, anything
Our wildest dream is being able to get in contact with her family and possibly even meeting her and if everything works out being a part of her life
The real problem is this, we don't know who the adoptive parents are and outside of her name at birth we have no information about her at all. We didn't take her home because of space and the ill relatives in our home.
We signed rights away two weeks later via family court. I have contacted the lawyer the state provided during the process but she had no information available. I called the local cps office but they said the only thing I could really get was a redacted adoption record (which I already requested but who knows how much usable info it will have)
So if anyone here has gone through this, how do you get contact information for the adoptive parents and how do you approach the entire situation? we don't want to wait until she is an adult and maybe tries to find us. We want her to know our regret is real and we have six years worth of love we want to give her.
For reference this all took place in Texas