| First, please pay more attention to posting guidelines. There is a Read First sticky at the top of the Children forum (where this was moved from) that directs questions of a legal nature to this forum.
Also, had you browsed this forum you would have found many threads with a similar question.
The answer is that a step parent adoption requires a relinquishment of rights on the part of the parent being replaced. If that parent refuses, its unlikely the adoption will be allowed. If that person cannot be contacted, you will need to show a good faith effort to find him to get his relinquishment. What a good faith effort consists of is defined by local law. | 
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