[tasia_16334]

My daughter's father has not been in her life at all, he only seen her once when she was one month old and she is now almost three. I am planning on getting married to my current boyfriend , and he wants to adopt my daughter I need to know if he can do that without having to find the sperm donor and having him sign over his right's!!

[ScottGem]

First, Please pay more attention to posting guidelines. There is a sticky note at the top of the adoption forum (where this was moved from), that refers questions of a legal nature to this forum.

Second, a sperm donor is someone who donates sperm either for in vitro fertilization or through a sperm bank. It is NOT someone you had sexual intercourse with.

Finally, an adoption is a legal process. The law requires that permission be obtained for a step parent adoption ro that a resonable effort be made to obtain such permission.

You will need an attorney to prepare the adoption petition. Your attorney will tell you what needs to be done.

[Fr_Chuck]

Well if you had gotten a custody order and had the sperm donor paying child support, I am sure he would be a lot happier to sign over rights, if he could get out of paying future support.

But no, you will have to find the sperm donor ;and get him to sign over his rights.