Q: What can I do about the hospital doing surgery on my child with out my consent & the child's mother not making child sup
My step son ran away from home and the hospital got verbal consent from the child's mother even though she lost all rights to the children in court? How can the hospital legal due any none emergency surgery on the child with out consent from the child's legal guardian/parent? And what can be done about child support not being paid in years without consequence to the payee?
A:
Child support is a separate question. Deal with that through child support enforcement.
On the permission, if it was emergency surgery and it was the mother, a hospital isn't required to quizz her as to whether or not she has full rights.
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