Q: i have a question about family law in puerto rico. My question is if i sign my rights over do i still pay child support?
I am also looking for a lawyer in puerto rico .
A:
You need to be more specific regarding "signing over your rights". Are you ceding your "parens patriae" ("patria potestad", in Spanish) rights, which are your right to make decisions regarding the well-being of your child? Are you ceding your custody right, which is your right to have your child live with you? Are you ceding your affiliation right, which is your right to be in your child's life? Under any and all three of these scenarios, you are still obligated to pay for child support until the latter of (a) your child becomes of legal age at 21 years; (b) your child becomes legally emancipated at or after 18 years of age; or (c) your child is legally adopted by another parent of the same gender as yourself.
Even when any of these conditions are met, stopping child support payments is not automatic. You would need to go before a court of law to procure permission to stop payments; and your child's other parent (and perhaps, your child) will have a say in the matter as well.
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