Articles on Termination of Rights
In North Carolina, Can my Boyfriend Adopt my Child Without me Giving up Parental Right?
I have a 17 yr old daughter that wants my boyfriend to adopt her. Her father said he would sign a paper to give up his rights. My boyfriend would like to adopt her. Can this be done in the state of NC without me giving up my rights?
My fiance has a 9 year old child who is living with us at this time since his mom is a drug addict trying to clean herself. This child doesn’t want to live with us and hates us and he even called child services on us and accused us of child abuse. He hates grown ups and anybody who tries to disciplined him, even his teacher and doctors. My fiance wants to give up his parental rights, but we are concerned about the consequences. We were told that my fiance could go to jail for abandonment of a child if he decides to give up his parental rights. Is that correct? is this a crime in the state of CT?
I have a termination of parental rights in place. It was granted in 2002. I have now found out that there is money in my sons name and was told to do an amendment to the TOPR. The lawyer I talked to said that this can’t be done unless you set aside the termination. IF I was to do this what is the likely hood of the father being able to get any rights if he even tried during the period it is set aside?
My fiance’s ex-wife has asked him to give up his rights to his two sons. My question to you is will he still have to pay child support? She is planning on getting married in the near future would the courts allow this. We live in the state of Missouri.
My son’s father and I were never married. He wasn’t there for the birth and is not on the birth certificate. He has been in and out of my son’s life seeing him only about a dozen times (he is now over two years old) sometimes with as much as a year between visits. I want to get child support from him but I don’t think its in the best interest of my son to have him around. I’m curious if I can get support from him without him seeing my son.
i have 3 children and am divorced. my middle daughter age 6 said i touched her inappropriately during a visitation. i did not do this. since this dcf interviewed me, they referred to state atty office, i have not heard from the state atty office ever. now today i was served papers stating that my ex wants no visitation rights with my daughter and a continuance of visitation of 2 hrs a month with my other 2 children. they are asking to terminate my rights to my daughter. can they take my parental rights from me with my daughter? why cant i have regular visitation with my other 2 children? if they take my parental visitation rights, am i obligated to pay child support?
Do I have rights to regain my paternity and custody rights if my parental rights were wrongly terminated? My ex-wife said she was very sorry but she wanted me out of the picture. Now she is happy to live with her husband, son and his siblings/two children were born during their marriage/, the boy has a bond with her husband and… in this way I am not wanted because it is not in his interest to have relationships with me. I only want to be a part…no-I want to be a very important part of my son’s life. I was told I do not have fair chance for success, the odds are not in my favor and if I file a motion I will lose. Is it true?
My husband recently had an affair. The woman is pregnant and doesn’t want the baby. She has offered to let my husband and I have full custody. Am I correct in thinking that we would need to do a “stepparent” adoption? Does his name go on the Birth Certificate at birth?
My ex-husband and I have recently discussed him giving up his rights to our son. He is in Washington State and I am in North Carolina…it has been over a year since he has seen our son and says that he has a new family out there now and doesn’t want to have to worry about seeing or talking to our son any more. What can I do about getting this done?
I live in Texas. CPS recently placed my nephew in my mothers custody. His mother signed away her rights and now my nephew is ward of the state. My nephew’s brother as lived with my mom since he was born. He is now 8 years old. If CPS made her sign her rights away what happens to the siblings??? She also has another son that lives with her aunt, they have had him since he was born and he is now 10. Does she still have rights to her other two boys?
Her father and I were engaged to be married but broke up 4 months before she was born. He is in the army and was in the state of Hawaii through out my whole pregnancy. He never called to see if or when she was born. I met someone when she was 3 months old we have been together ever since and he has taken on the responsibility of being her father. My fiancee wants to adopt her. He loves her like his own. He has been there for all the doctor appointments, first shots, first word, first step, first everything. Will adopting her be expensive, and what about her bio-father. He never did sign her birth certificate. We are planning to get married in the fall of 2007 and wanted to add adoption to celebration.
My ex husband has had no interaction with our minor child and lacks the finances to pay support, so he has asked to terminate his parental rights so that my new husband whom has taken care of my daughter since she was born can adopt her, my question is this : Can I write this paperwork up myself or do I need to hire an attorney to do this for me? Also, in either case, he has not paid support in almost year and I would ask that the arrearages be dropped so that we may just move on with our lives, is this possible or will he have to pay arrearages before terminating his rights?
My ex-girlfriend lied about my daughter’s birth date (09/30/05), so that she could keep me unaware of her birth. This was so she could claim she did not know who the father was and sign over parental rights to a family friend. How legal and binding is that in the state of Arizona? The hospital paperwork was stuffed in my ex’s diaper bag pocket by mistake. They show the signature of the new mom and my ex-girlfriend signing over her rights to the child. I filed for full custody about 2 weeks before I had knowledge of my daughter’s birth, since there is a history of depression and suicidal tendencies from the mother. How can I find out when my daughter went back to my ex-girlfriend and why the court is still allowing my ex-girlfriend to have joint custody, in light of this? Should there be something in writing, stating that my ex-girlfriend took my daughter back. Is that legal, seeing as how she was turned over at the hospital after birth and not through a normal adoption process?
I have a 6 month old daughter. Her biological father has never seen her and has never even asked to see her. He has brought up the fact that he would like to terminate his rights. I am engaged, and my fiance wants to adopt her. He has supported her financially, and was even in the delivery room when she was born. I would like to know if he can adopt her before we get married or if we have to be married first?
My parental rights were terminated after five years in New York City family court, I filed an appeal and lost. Now I am in the process of petitioning to have my appeal reconsidered. It’s been seven years. My question is do I have resources if my petition is denied. I was an active participant in my service plan and visitation. My children are now in prospective adoptive homes, separately. What can I do?
My ex wants to voluntarily sign over his rights if I stipulate that by doing so he is no longer responsible for child support. I will not cut off contact as I feel it is important she still sees her dad even though he has court ordered supervised visits as of now. My ex is Bi Polar and frequently makes decisions on whims, signing over his rights was his idea and it sounds good to me as I will be assured he wont drag me into court all the time anymore?
He won’t give up his rights to a child that he’s have no contact with in or over six years. He has no part her life at all. I’m in the state is Wisconsin.
My daughter is 19 and is pregnant the father of the child wants to sign off his paternal rights. Can this be done?
After Divorcing, the 3 children, ages 4, 6 and 10 were taken away from the biological mother from Child Protective Services. The father has paid child support through wage garnishment. The biological mother is getting the child support check, but she does not have custody of the children. Is this legal and what can we do about it?
If my child lives in North Carolina and I live in New York, how would the amount that I am responsible to pay be determined?
My husband and I have permanent custody of his 6 year old son from his previous marriage. He came to live with us 2 years ago after his birth mother was in a car accident and found with crystal meth on her person. The state of Nevada child services went in to the home and removed my step son. . We have a letter from them saying that have charged her with abuse and neglect. We wanted to remove her parental right at the time this happened but our lawyer at the time advised against it for the sake of the child and the mother.
I am 18 years old and live with my mother and younger siblings. My father died earlier in the year and he was our primary caregiver. Now my father is dead and we are living with this woman that screams at us all the time. I don’t want to leave and leave them with her. I would like to take at least 2 brothers with me. Ages 16 (3/07) and a 9 year old that she screams at all the time. Is there any way I can get custody of them.
“I signed away my parental rights over ten years ago and now my child’s mother wants to reinstate them to collect child support. Can she do this?”
My son just found out that he is one of 5 men tested to be the father of a 2 or 3 year old girl. He was under age when this child was conceived and she was between 23-26 years old.
My fiance was married for almost 8 years. His, at the time, wife had a child from another man. While they were married, they began to explore the process of adopting said son. Now, they are divorced. He’s been the child’s father for 8 years and change.
My wife and I want to be able to give her son my last name, and I want to adopt him. I have been responsible for his healthcare and well-being since he was born basically. The ex-husband/father has not been around for over 2 years, and is approximately $10,000.00 behind in child support. My wife wants to have his parental rights terminated, so that I can legally adopt him. After nine years my daughter’s father has decided he no longer want to be a part of her life. He has requested to terminate his rights in exchange for no child support. Can he do that?
My mother has been caring for my niece since my sister passed away. We have no idea where the father is. Is it possible for my mother to obtain custody or some form of legal guardianship without involving the father?
I was severely beaten and raped by an ex-boyfriend 3 months after the break up. The beating was so severe that I was in a coma for 4 days. I want to get him to sign away all his rights. Will his name still have to be on the birth certificate?
In feb.06 his children’s mother died. He went to court for guardianship in July 06, and he was told his rights had been terminated by default. They (DHS) terminated his rights through publication. His tribe (native american) intervened and his children are in the tribes custody.
There is an adoptive father to take over responsibilities, do I still have to pay child support until it is final?
I married a man and became pregnant, due to problems we seperated before the birth of my child…we went to court for a divorce and the father gave up all of his parental rights (on his own freewill).
I want to terminate my child’s father’s parental rights, and still receive child support. Can I do this?
My fiance was married for almost 8 years. His, at the time, wife had a child from another man. While they were married, they began to explore the process of adopting said son. Now that they are divorced, does he have to have the mother’s consent to adopt him still? Could the bio dad give up his rights to my fiance without the mother’s approval?
I am wondering if I will have to notify my son’s biological father or have him sign off on anything in order to do so even though he did not sign the birth certificate.
My teenage daughter is troubled, has moved out and I hear she is still getting into trouble and running with gangs. My question is, since the courts let her live with her uncle and wouldn’t let me put her in a home, what can I do to protect my self if she really gets into trouble?
My 12 year old son wants to go live with his step-father (my ex-husband). Do I have to let him? What rights does the step-father have?
I have a three year old son who hasn’t seen his biological father since he was 7 weeks old. I’m getting married next month and my fiance wants to adopt my son. Where do I start?
I am an 18 year old who has had an affair with a 33 year old married man. I don’t want him to have any parental rights to my child. He has agreed to terminate all of his parental rights. How do I do this?
My husband is willing to terminate his parental rights to our daughter, I want to do this before filling for divorce in Washington State. Can we do this?
Can a biological father voluntarily give up his parental rights?
It takes more than failure to pay child support and your desire to make a new life and have your ex out of your life, to terminate their parental rights.
My daughter’s father is bipolar and does not take his meds. Can I use this to terminate his parental rights and let my fiance adopt my daughter?
There are processes for having a parent’s rights terminated, but is it the best thing to do?
Terminating parental rights is rarely done lightly. Termination of parental rights is very serious, and once done, very hard to undo.
