Adopting my soon to be wife's son (never seen father)
First off, I live in Texas. I was wondering if it is going to be a huge hassle to adopt my soon to be wife's son. He is 4 now and has never seen his dad nor has his dad ever paid child support or anything, although his name is on the birth certificate. I talked to a lawyer about this already and he said his biological father has no rights since they have never met and he has not paid any chils support but I wanted to ask on here.
He calls me dad, I am his father, just not biologically. I support him, he lives with me and his mother.
He also has his biological fathers last name since he was on the birth certificate.
I guess I'm trying to find out if he does actually have any rights and if we would have to contact his biological father for me to adopt him and change his last name to mine, even though he has never met his biological father nor has his biological father gave his mother a dime.