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Dr. Phil taping of Allison Quets, Coming Soon!
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Last Updated: 4/25/07
Facts About Allison Quets
Education:
- Completed high school in 3 years
- Graduated with honors
- Bachelors in Psychology
- Masters in Social Welfare
- Certified Social Worker
- Masters in Computer Science
Employment:
- Employed by GE/Lockheed Martin (LM) for 21 years
- Worked on high security government projects for 10 years
- Traveled extensively for her job, thus LM provided only a home office
- Was offered management positions
- Sought jobs compatible with raising children
- Had ample financial resources to raise twins
- Would love to be a teacher in the future
Personal:
- Grew up in New York
- Planned for children for nearly a decade
- Owns a home in a family-oriented neighborhood in Orlando
- Divorced because husband did not want children
- Parents are elderly and unable to offer support
- Traveled to NC to minimize travel stress on twins
- Invested extensively in fertility treatments for over 2 years
- Parented a child (relative of Needhams) frequently for 4 years
- Helped that child thrive academically and behaviorally
- Rents a well-equipped NC apartment for visitation
- Is only in NC over weekend for visitation
- Provides consistent, safe, stable environment for visits
- Twins have bonded with Allison & show distress when she leaves
Health:
- Conceived twins via IVF on 11-05-04
- Weighed 138 pounds pre-pregnancy
- Experienced severe hyperemesis throughout pregnancy
- Vomited blood for 6 months from stomach ulcers and tears in throat
- Was too ill to care for herself by end of pregnancy
- Required risky IV nutrition for survival during pregnancy
- Had life-threatening complications during/after pregnancy
- Gained only 10 of the 45 pounds needed for a twin pregnancy
- Delivered twins at 37 weeks on 07-6-05
- Required 5 units of blood after delivery
- Fed twins every 1-3 hours the first 5 weeks
- Was diagnosed postpartum with anxiety, depression, traumatic stress
- Weighed 110 pounds postpartum
- Recent psychological testing showed well-functioning adult
Legal:
- No adoption was finalized and paperwork was not completed
- No legal representation was encouraged or offered
- Needhams were represented by Shorstein & Kelly in Jacksonville, FL
- Requests for help from social worker did not yield alternatives to
adoption
- Has proven to be a very competent, loving mother to twins and other
children
- Retains parental rights to the twins and is the only parent
- Twins legal names are Tyler Lee & Holly Ann Quets
- Has birth certificates and social security cards for twins
- Custodians of twins are legally considered intermediaries
- Obtained passports legally for ID & airline travel to meet family
- Pursued temporary guardianship to allow time to recover
- Discussions regarding twins' care were based on promises of close, family
ties
- Loves her children and has fought for them daily since August 12, 2005
- Signed a consent form on August 16, 2005 while ill and sleep deprived
- Began revocation within hours of consent signing
- Notified Needhams of revocation before they took custody of twins or
signed papers
- Invested over $400k in legal process thus far
- Obeyed every court order over last 18 months until recent event
- Opposed at least 6 motions to terminate her visitation
- Has been only allowed periodic weekend visitation
- Has not had a week (5 consecutive days) in over a year with twins
- Was denied visitation with twins on their first birthday
- Court ordered visitation was ignored in March and November (2006)
- An appeal is pending in FL's higher court
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