PART 16

The attorney Lillian recommended was a patient woman named Andrea Morales who specialized in family-record disputes and adoption documentation.

She listened to the entire story without interrupting and spread the papers in neat rows across her conference table.

“I need to be careful about what I promise,” she told us.

“Thirty-one years is a long time.

Laws and deadlines have changed, and some records may no longer exist.

We can investigate whether there was fraud, request available files, and ask the appropriate agencies to review what happened.