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Step Parent Adoption

just_tired's picture

Submitted by just_tired on Mon, 12/22/2014 - 11:56am

Does anyone know how step parent adoption works and/or how hard is it to obtain. BM has now been arrested 7 times this year and has made no major efforts in utilizing her supervised visitation time. How much more do you need to prove someone unfit so they lose their parental rights?

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Mercury's picture

Submitted by Mercury on Mon, 12/22/2014 - 12:12pm

I don't know if it is a state to state thing but I know it can be pretty difficult. I have a friend who was adopted by her step father after she turned 18 because her bio father would not sign away his parental rights. He never visited her when she was a kid, never wrote or called, and never paid a dime of support. She did use the step dad's last name while she was growing up even though it hadn't been legally changed.

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Submitted by step off already on Mon, 12/22/2014 - 4:44pm

Bm will have to be admonished of her parental rights or legally give them up first. You can't just go adopt someone else's kid.