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    jld031899 Posts: 6, Reputation: 1
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    Sep 29, 2009, 09:23 AM
    Can my husband get his rights back if they where taken away?
    My husband had a daughter with a women when they where both 18. The relationship lasted until the baby was 6 months old and he came home one day and she and the baby had moved out. It took him weeks to finally find her, now living with his boss. She would barely allow him to have contact with the baby and wouldn't except any money or diaper or any help of any kind. After losing his job he moved to Georgia for 6 months and came back, at which time I met him. He started trying to contact her and she filed a restraining order. She married the guy she left him for and hired a personal attorney to file for her husband now to adopt the child. My husband couldn't afford an attorney to fight her, so they successfully took his rights. He is now in a much better position in life right now. If we hire an attorney can he get any rights back? It has been 4 years and we live in TN. He never signed any papers signing over his rights.
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    Sep 29, 2009, 09:34 AM
    Unfortunately the child has now been adopted. It is hard, if not impossible to overturn an adoption that took place so long ago.

    You can contact a family law attorney in your area, however, the chances are slim that his rights will be reinstated.
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    Sep 29, 2009, 09:59 AM

    I am very confused - the child was adopted without your husband's consent? Was this a "reply or you will forfeit your rights" situation?

    He did NOT need an Attorney at that time; he needs one now and I will be astonished if the adoption is reversed.
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    Sep 30, 2009, 09:08 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by JudyKayTee View Post
    I am very confused - the child was adopted without your husband's consent? Was this a "reply or you will forfeit your rights" situation?

    He did NOT need an Attorney at that time; he needs one now and I will be astonished if the adoption is reversed.
    It was a have an attorney and be in court on this date, or sign these papers type of thing. She hired a personal attorney, and in Tennesse that no longer makes it a civil suit, it bounds it over to another type of judge... when we went to court, the judge told him that if he didn't have an attorney his attepts were useless.
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    Sep 30, 2009, 09:32 PM

    Sorry, but the child is not his to have any rights to. I know it will be hard but he will have to wait until the child is 18 and then can try to contact the *to be adult* child. It will then be up to the "child" if they want to have contact with him. I really hate to see this happen but it's the way the law works and obviously at 18 he probably didn't know to go to court right away to get visitation and what not set up before she could do that. I think that's one of the hardest things about becoming an adult.
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