dntsc
May 30, 2012, 01:51 PM
My daughter and I moved from AZ (where she was born) in 2009 when she was 8 months old, we now live in Tennessee. I am now married and have been since Feb 2011. My daughter, now 3, calls my husband Daddy and remembers nothing of her biological father and he was in her life the first four weeks of her life and from 4 months to 8 months (at 8 months old her father was arrested for warrants and I left)
The biological father has an outstanding felony warrant, is on the run from the police, does drugs (crack, coke and weed), drinks heavily, physically abused me before, during and after pregnancy and is constantly moving from place to place within the Phoenix, AZ area. I have not known where he was living since early 2010.
Do my husband and I have to be represented by a lawyer for him to adopt? Do I have grounds for an abandonment case? (he has had my number since I moved from AZ and I updated my phone number with him in 2010. He does not call or ask for pictures)
He said at one point he would sign her over but he is a bipolar druggy and at this point I have no clue how to reach him since he does not call. Please help me because my daughter's biological father could take her away and any situation with him would be unsafe for her. He had threatened to kill me if I ever left with her and that he would take her away and none of my family would ever see her again. My husband, his family, me and my family is all she knows!
The biological father has an outstanding felony warrant, is on the run from the police, does drugs (crack, coke and weed), drinks heavily, physically abused me before, during and after pregnancy and is constantly moving from place to place within the Phoenix, AZ area. I have not known where he was living since early 2010.
Do my husband and I have to be represented by a lawyer for him to adopt? Do I have grounds for an abandonment case? (he has had my number since I moved from AZ and I updated my phone number with him in 2010. He does not call or ask for pictures)
He said at one point he would sign her over but he is a bipolar druggy and at this point I have no clue how to reach him since he does not call. Please help me because my daughter's biological father could take her away and any situation with him would be unsafe for her. He had threatened to kill me if I ever left with her and that he would take her away and none of my family would ever see her again. My husband, his family, me and my family is all she knows!