Q: If the mother of my child is in jail an I don’t have rights how could I get my legitimate parental rights?
The only reason I couldn’t legitimize her at birth is because Covid lockdown at hospital wouldn’t allow us to leave our room. So they sent paperwork home with us An my child’s mother filled out the paperwork with out my knowledge and turned it in to health department without my knowledge.
A: The paperwork you received when your child was born was probably not legitimation documents, but possibly a paternity acknowledgement. In order to legitimize a child you have to file an action in court and have the mother served, or the mother could have consented to the legitimation and you still would have had to file all the proper paperwork. Now, my best advice would be to hire an attorney who can file the necessary paperwork for you, get the mother served where she is currently located, and express to the court this is an emergency so they can get you before the judge as quickly as possible, in order for you to gain temporary custody of your minor children.
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