Adoption or name change little girl needs it
I have been married to my wife for almost 4 years now and she has a 10 year old daughter whom I would love adopt. The bio father has not seen nor gave any sort of child support in over 5 years. The last we had heard is that he has been in and out of jail in Arizona but we cannot locate him. The girl longs to use my last name and hates her own, it has even brought her to tears to use her last and not mine, and wants nothing more than for me to be her dad as she already thinks of me as such. Is there any inexpensive way to get this done? If not adoption what about a name change so she can have the same last name as the rest of the family and not feel so left out?