Moving across state lines while pregnant part II

Thank you for responding so quickly. I'm also interested in knowing if time changes things? I called the "bio-father" when the baby was born but he has made no effort to see the baby and seems to want nothing to do with him. He would have to come from Ohio to Texas. I've heard if he doesn't make contact with in a year I can petition the court to permanently relinguish his rights. Is this true? Again, thank you.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by des:
[b]Thank you for responding so quickly. I'm also interested in knowing if time changes things? I called the "bio-father" when the baby was born but he has made no effort to see the baby and seems to want nothing to do with him. He would have to come from Ohio to Texas. I've heard if he doesn't make contact with in a year I can petition the court to permanently relinguish his rights. Is this true? Again, thank you.[/b]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


My response:

No, that is not necessarily true. While scarce, or even non-existent, visitation may severely hamper him in future hearings concerning things that he may want concerning his child, because he'll lose the attention of the judge as a result, he'll never lose custody because of it - - as long as he pays his support for the child, because child support payments are considered "caring contacts". And, even then, he'd really have to be a real bad person for a judge to actually terminate parental rights.

Parental rights are Constitutional in nature, and courts cannot, without due process of law, terminate rights of a parent except under very, very extreme and narrow circumstances.

IAAL

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