Attorney Hayes: Here is the original intake folder from the agency. Satisfied?
Richard: Give it to me. Let's see the signed consent form from the birth mother.
Clara: My signature won't be on there. I never signed a single paper!
Richard: Look at this signature... 'Clara Montgomery'. Is that your handwriting?
Clara: Let me see that! No! That's not my signature! The 'M' is completely wrong—my stepmother signs my name like that on family documents!
Richard: Look at the notary stamp on the back page. Who notarized this document?
Clara: 'Evelyn Montgomery'... She notarized her own falsified consent form!
Richard: That's illegal. A family member can't notarize a parental rights surrender for their own stepdaughter!
Attorney Hayes: This... this must have been an administrative oversight by the agency staff.
Richard: An oversight? You told me this agency was 100% vetted and legitimate!
Clara: They paid off the doctors and lied to me so Evelyn could claim I was mentally unstable and take control of my trust fund!
Richard: If Clara was declared unfit, my adoption is built on a fraudulent court filing. The entire transfer of rights is void!
Clara: My dad left five million dollars in a trust fund for me and my children. Evelyn wanted that money for herself!
Richard: She sold your baby to cover up the trust fund theft...
Clara: And you bought her!
Richard: I didn't know! My wife and I struggled for seven years to have a baby! We thought we were saving a child who needed a home!
Clara: Where is your wife now?
Richard: She passed away from cancer six months ago... Maya is all I have left in this world.
Clara: Her name is Lily! And she belongs with her mother!
Richard: She doesn't even know who you are! She's three years old, Clara! You can't just rip her away from the only father she's ever known!
Clara: You want me to leave my stolen child with a man who paid her kidnappers?
Richard: I am calling the district attorney right now. We need an emergency DNA test and a federal investigator in this room!
Clara: Call them! Call everyone! I'm not leaving until the police arrive!
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