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queenrumrunner
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What is the name of your state? Michigan
I really need some advice, help and opinions tonite.
I will try to make this story short.
A friend of mine who is only 18 and has an appointment with social services tommorow and he has to decide if he should sign off on his parental rights to his unborn child.
He was dating the mother who is 19, and when he was 17 he got her pregnant, she left him and said that she is giving the baby up for adoption.
She is now 7 months along, and has served him with papers for him to give up parental rights. He doesnt want to sign off and wants to raise the baby himself, but he dropped out of High School, doesnt have a job and lives at home with dad. He also struggles with feelings about his mom because she had a stroke 7 yrs ago and he has to visit her in a nursing home.
I know he loves the baby, and I think he has come to me because I had my daughter when I was 18, but I didnt give her up.
I dont know the proper advice to really give, I dont have all the right answers, but everyone else wants him to sign off and he has come to me for advice and to go with him tommorow to this appointment.
I know how hard it will be either way, hard to rasise the baby alone and hard to sign off.
The social worker did tell him that he cant have the baby no matter what because he was a minor when the baby was conceived, and that by him signing off it will only be that much easier for them to start the adoption. I really dont beleive that what the social worker said is true. Are there any fathers rights? Or does a man have to be rich and have a good lawyer?
Any suggestions? Does anyone know the laws about fathers rights in case if he does want custody?
Any help would be great.
Thanks
I really need some advice, help and opinions tonite.
I will try to make this story short.
A friend of mine who is only 18 and has an appointment with social services tommorow and he has to decide if he should sign off on his parental rights to his unborn child.
He was dating the mother who is 19, and when he was 17 he got her pregnant, she left him and said that she is giving the baby up for adoption.
She is now 7 months along, and has served him with papers for him to give up parental rights. He doesnt want to sign off and wants to raise the baby himself, but he dropped out of High School, doesnt have a job and lives at home with dad. He also struggles with feelings about his mom because she had a stroke 7 yrs ago and he has to visit her in a nursing home.
I know he loves the baby, and I think he has come to me because I had my daughter when I was 18, but I didnt give her up.
I dont know the proper advice to really give, I dont have all the right answers, but everyone else wants him to sign off and he has come to me for advice and to go with him tommorow to this appointment.
I know how hard it will be either way, hard to rasise the baby alone and hard to sign off.
The social worker did tell him that he cant have the baby no matter what because he was a minor when the baby was conceived, and that by him signing off it will only be that much easier for them to start the adoption. I really dont beleive that what the social worker said is true. Are there any fathers rights? Or does a man have to be rich and have a good lawyer?
Any suggestions? Does anyone know the laws about fathers rights in case if he does want custody?
Any help would be great.
Thanks