Giving up full parental rights so an adoption can go through doesn’t need the parent to be there in person for several weeks. All it takes is a signed and witnessed statement presented by an attorney and that’s in today’s courts. I can’t see a judge in easy going HI back in ‘71 making a resident of Kenya, who had never been part of the child’s life, hop a plane just to transfer the kid over to the grandparents. Even less so if it was just custody. And if Lolo had adopted him then why wasn’t Lolo the one having to physically be in HI? While I believe Sr.’s happy little family Christmas visit involved custody of the little prince, I’m suspicious that there was more to it than that.
Good point, but somewhere there is a statement up thread IIRC where signature of parent-S is required...That’s parents with an s...both parents. If he had not had parental rights withdrawn Sr would still be father of record and his signature would be required....Been out in the heat/garden either wait till I’ve cooled down or see if you can find it in my comments.