Stroudsburg, PA asked in Family Law and Child Custody for New York

Q: Do I as a god parent have rights over my god child welfare, over her mother husband who didn’t adopted her.

She messing up in school. She came home one night from work at 12am and put her out inthe cold. Luckily her grandma was home for her to go to.Her mother is disabled and her grandma is a elder and have health issue. Me and her god father my husband is willing to take her with us we live in the Pocono’s.

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Lawrence Allen Weinreich
Lawrence Allen Weinreich
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  • Divorce Lawyer
  • Garden City, NY
  • Licensed in New York

A: A god parent is an honorary title and gives you no authority whatsoever.

Tim Akpinar agrees with this answer

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