| Terminating Parental Rights
I live in Wisconsin and I have a 5 month old son, and am no longer involved with the Father. He has said on and off since the time I was pregnant, that he wanted to sign off his rights. Then he would say he wanted to be involved, get mad, say he wants to sign off etc. He was seeing our son every 10-14 days, but now has not made an effort to see him in 6 weeks. Last I spoke to him I told him I wanted to change our son's last name (I gave his to him) and he said he would only sign it if I let him sign off his rights. Most of the research I have done says that generally the Judge won't allow it unless the Mother is married and someone else wants to adopt. However, recently I have heard 2 stories where the father was allowed to sign off his rights. I do not recieve any government support, and have never requested child support. The only thing he does is have our son on his insurance at my request. For this, I would aquire insurance and pay for that on my own. I am wondering if anyone else has any experience in this type of situation and what the chances are that a judge would allow him to sign off his rights? I have decided that if he wants to sign his rights off, that is fine with me. I will never need any financial support from him. I am contacting an attorney hopefully tomorrow, but am wondering what other peoples experience has been. Thank you.
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