Q: Help with absent father who threatens court with me.
My daughters father has not paid child support, he goes months without contacting her, shes 2, and months without seeing her. He will text me a couple days before he wishes to see her and when i tell him that i have plans he gets upset and says that its my fault he doesn't have a relationship with her and that my daughter will grow up to resent me for it? I believe that he has an alcohol problem, he owns a gun and jokes about shooting people, and he was a FTA warrant out for his arrest from 2014. I am in a very committed relationship and when we get married he wants to adopt my daughter. What should i do?
A: When you get married and your significant other wants to adopt the child you must first terminate the biological parents rights first and then put the adoption through. The termination can be consented to or contested and if contested then a hearing will have to be conducted to see what is in the child's best interest.
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