Termintating parental rights/step parent adoption
My husband of 2 years wants to adopt my two children. He and I have one child together. The non custodial parent will never consent. We are actually going to court for permission to move out of state, because the non custodial parent contested that, as well. We want to file a petition to have the non custodial parent's rights terminated on several grounds. He is a Level 2 Sex Offender. He is always in and out of jail. He is currently incarcerated until October of 2009. He owes $15,000 in child support arrearages. He had his visitaion rights terminated in January of 2007. Before that he failed to make any contact with children. (The youngest child doesn't even know who he is. She calls my husband daddy.) And he is also a drug addict. He is a very familiar name in the system. And twice my oldest child saw him posted on the news for breaking and entering into a store, and for failing to register as a sex offender when the police were searching for him. (The first time he saw it was what prompted me to have his visitation terminated. It was terminated on the grounds of drug abuse, lack of contact with the children, failure to support children, constantly in and out of jail, and being a sex offender. Same reasons we want to have his rights terminated.) My husband is the sole provider of this family. He has been supporting these two children for 3 years. I want to know if we have a possible chance of winning this petition, and if it helps that my husband wants to adopt them. We live in Massachusetts currently, but are moving to Maine so.