adoptive parent with a sealed NY juvenile record?
I was hoping you might assess the following situation and provide some guidance. My wife and I are very interested in adopting a child, but as we begin our journey, a regrettable episode from my adolescence is hanging over us like a dark cloud, and we simply don't know how to handle it appropriately. At age 14 during the 1980s, I was arrested (initially as a juvenile offender) in NY district court -- the matter was immediately removed to family court, and in its final disposition, the court adjudicated me a juvenile delinquent (an "E-petition" JD of a "designated felony act").
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