Typically you really can select your loved ones.
Or, a minimum of, Teen Mother offspring Leah Shirley is hoping that is the case because the 16-year-old daughter of OG star Amber Portwood explores the method of getting stepmom Kristina Shirley formally undertake her.
“I need to be adopted as a result of Kristina’s been there my entire life,” the Indiana-based teen defined on the March 13 episode of Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter. “I simply really feel prefer it must be official. And it is greater than a chunk of paper to me.”
However the excessive schooler additionally is aware of that it’d require extra than simply filling out some kinds.
After her dad Gary Shirley—who ended his three-year engagement to Amber in 2011—visited with an lawyer to study their choices, he defined that the method could possibly be lengthy and arduous.
“If every thing was to go easily, after submitting paperwork, which you would need to signal some stuff, too, it might take three months,” he defined to his daughter on the MTV sequence. “If Amber contests, then it might take, like, a yr. It might take longer.”
