[mmseratt]

Would anybody know what the laws are in Arkansas for signing of your rights on a child and if you still have to pay child support

[ScottGem]

Generally, A Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) is only granted when there is a parent waiting to adopt or if the parent represents a danger to the child. In the case of adoption all responsibility goes to the adoptive parent so support ceases. In the unlikely event that a TPR is granted without an adoption, then generally support continues.

[Fr_Chuck]

Generally you first will have a hard time just signing over your rights,
Next it won't happen if both people don't agree. And almost always except if adopted it will not stop the support payments.

[jp242]

A TPR is usually only granted when there is another parent (usually in the case of the custodial parent remarrying) looking to adopt the child or the parent is unfit to be a parent and it is in the best interest of the child (and in some cases the best interest of the parent, like cases of rape for a woman) to have the parents rights terminated. In most cases of TPR, all obligations of support cease but so does the right to know anything about the child, visits, and any communication. It is as if you are a stranger on the street.

In the unlikely event that a TPR is granted without an adoption, then generally support continues.

I mean this question out of complete curiosity, but do you have any evidence or citations of law to support this? I have never read any state law where a TPR is granted but the responsibility of support continues. Granted, I have not read every states laws regarding TPR, but generally a TPR means that the "parent" and child are treated as virtual strangers in the eyes of the law and all obligations, including support, cease.

[ScottGem]

There are a few threads here where this has been discussed. One member GV70, has been great at citing statutes on this issue. From what I've seen, the laws tend to go one of two ways. Either they are written as you say, where there is a complete severing or they separate parental rights from parental responsibility. The thing is, where the laws allow a complete severing it becomes much harder to actually get a TPR.

What it boils down to is a judge is very unlikely to grant a TPR simply to allow a parent to get out of paying support.