[madis0n03]

I'm about to get married in a few months and I was wondering what I have to do to have my daughter adopted by my fiancée. her biological father has no rights to her and has no contact with us. Do I have to try to contact him and ask him for permission? Or can we just file paperwork with the courts? Please let me know if you have any information! Thank you!:confused:

[Fr_Chuck]

What do you mean by "he has no rights" has he already formally signed away his rights in the past?

And what level of child support has been ordered, is he current or how far behind he is.

If there is no formal written court order that he gave up his rights, he has all sorts of rights, he may not be inforcing them, but he has rights just because he is the bio father. Even if he is not the birth certificate, even if he hasnot seen her in years, he still have some rights.

Only if he already signed these rights away, does he not have rights.

But basically you will get an attorney who will write up the paper work for the adoption, the ex will be located, served with the papers, given time to respond. And it goes from there.

[Matt3046]

Yeah unless he agrees it's going to be pretty hard to do.
I don't think it matters there are millions of wonderfully step parents , who love their kids just the same.

[vlee]

All true, but if his rights have been terminated by the court, then you ought to be able to proceed without him.