Hi
We are in the process of my husband adopting my daughter. He's brought her up since she was 1 years old and her biological dad is dead. She is now almost 9. We have 3 biological children together and it's important that our girl has the same legal ties to her dad as her siblings 
Her birth family are vile, absolutely vile. I won't go into it on here, but they've sent me to hell and back, particularly the grandmother. They have wanted my daughter to grieve and to be sad for her birth father, rather than accepting that my daughter was a baby when he died and has no memories. They will not accept my husband as her father and this has upset my daughter so much that she refuses to see them. I have worried the grandmother would take me to court for access but she hasn't so far and she hasn't seen my daughter for a year now. (Phew). Life is infinitely better without her in our life - she was a constant black cloud over us. If this woman/family brought anything positive to our family, I would embrace a relationship, but she doesn't 
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We have sent the adoption forms in and passed stage 1 which was an indepth conversation with a social worker about it. We are waiting for stage 2 which will be actually meeting with the social worker and her taking up references etc. They've said it will be straight forward.
When the adoption goes through, will this mean that all legal ties with the birth family are cut? Will it mean that they then can't apply for contact? I just want my daughter to have this safety