What is the name of your state? Indiana
I am engaged to a woman with a 2 year old daughter. Our hope is that I will be able to adopt her as soon as possible. The bio-father lives in Florida, where the child was born, and is listed as father on the bc. Mom and child lived in FLA for 6 months with the father and left because the father showed no interest in raising the child. He has paid sporadic support, based on a written agreeement, in the amount of $350/month. It has been suggested to us that the amount of support should be closer to $900 per. Father has made no effort to see the child since they moved, has called only a couple of times in one year and sends a check, usually months late, written off of his fathers company. He also has another child that is not in his custody and pays the same amount in support (another agreement, not by the courts).
We are curently going through establishing paternity and getting the a legal mandate made on support. I would assume any impending judgment will not change his interest in seeing or knowing the child. He has shown no interest up to this point and it is seriously doubtful that he will be able to or willing to pay any new amount of support going forward. We just want him to sign over his rights so I can adopt her. My fiance asked him to sign over before she left (and before she met me) but he said that he wouldn't.
Does anyone have any advice on what I can expect in interstate matters such as this, what our options are, etc. What is the effect of him defaulting on any new support order.
Thanks so much,
ab1
I am engaged to a woman with a 2 year old daughter. Our hope is that I will be able to adopt her as soon as possible. The bio-father lives in Florida, where the child was born, and is listed as father on the bc. Mom and child lived in FLA for 6 months with the father and left because the father showed no interest in raising the child. He has paid sporadic support, based on a written agreeement, in the amount of $350/month. It has been suggested to us that the amount of support should be closer to $900 per. Father has made no effort to see the child since they moved, has called only a couple of times in one year and sends a check, usually months late, written off of his fathers company. He also has another child that is not in his custody and pays the same amount in support (another agreement, not by the courts).
We are curently going through establishing paternity and getting the a legal mandate made on support. I would assume any impending judgment will not change his interest in seeing or knowing the child. He has shown no interest up to this point and it is seriously doubtful that he will be able to or willing to pay any new amount of support going forward. We just want him to sign over his rights so I can adopt her. My fiance asked him to sign over before she left (and before she met me) but he said that he wouldn't.
Does anyone have any advice on what I can expect in interstate matters such as this, what our options are, etc. What is the effect of him defaulting on any new support order.
Thanks so much,
ab1