Tampa, FL asked in Family Law for Florida

Q: We signed over rights to a dangerous child. If we had another would they take baby from us due to that?

My husband and I voluntarily had to give up rights to one of our biological children, who was a danger in our home.

He was younger but we'd exhausted all reaources/meds/the like. 

We had a paper trail, names, numbers and the like for the exhausted resources but the state didn't consider those, without proving it themselves and they had outside of the home. 

We did so for our safety and that of our other children. 

We were told that we couldn't adopt within the state after taking that step but what if we eventually had another child naturally? 

Would we have to worry about that child being taken from us, due to that situation?

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1 Lawyer Answer
Bruce Alexander Minnick
Bruce Alexander Minnick
Answered
  • Tallahassee, FL
  • Licensed in Florida

A: You did not tell us whether the child you "turned over your rights to" was an adopted child or your natural born child.

So I am assuming the child was adopted and that--for whatever reasons--you decided to give up the adopted child; is that right?

If so, you can be sure that the State of Florida will not allow either of you to adopt any other children. However, that "rule" does not apply to any natural born children you may have in the future.

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