I am pregnant and the father of the child wants to avoid court. He has offered to sign over parental rights and offered to deposit money into an account to help me. He cannot be trusted to help support this child. Is it even legal for him to just sign over rights and not be obligated by law to pay child support to help? Can he only sign over his rights if I am married and the child is going to be adopted by my husband? I have heard so many things and need to get to the bottom of this situation.

macksmom

He cannot relinquish his parental rights to get out of paying child support. But on the same note, child support isn't automatically ordered. You will need to file for it once the child is born, and if the father doesn't sign the birth certificate, a DNA test will need to be done first before child support is ordered.

But no, he cannot relinquish his rights. He can choose not to exercise his rights, as far as visitation and such...but he will always be responsible to financially support the child unless the time comes that you get married and your spouse wants to adopt the child and your ex still wants to relinquish his rights.

stinawords

Macks mom is right however Indiana is different than most states. I know from personal experience that if you both want him to sign over his rights then it is possible I've seen it happen more than most people on here think. If you don't want him to then he definantly won't be able to. Indiana is also one of those states that doesn't order child support to continue after the rights are terminated. So you need to think about that too if you want any support then you need to file for it and not agree to have his rights terminated.

vkimbj

i want to give my 15yr old sons farther custody of him he owes me back support for 18,000 woud i have to pay him support for the remaining 3 yrs

Fr_Chuck

First no one is going to advoid court. To sign over rights, both you have to agree and then the judge has to agree, most judges will not unless there is a new partner to adopt.
And almost never will they stop child support even if the other person does sign over thier rights.

And all of the above will take alot of court visits.
What you do, is prove he is the father in court though DNA, get a child support order in place and a garnishment of his paycheck for that support.
Then if he moves jobs, you move the support order.

He is merley being to my opinon the scum of the earth, making a baby and not wanting to be responsible for the child.

Also most states if the mother of the child or the infant is going to recieve any government asssistance will go after the father for money, so that is wny most will not allow them to not pay support.