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What is the name of your state? Florida
I will try and keep this as brief as possible, but there is a lot of information to be given.
13 years ago as a wild, irresponsible young woman, I managed to party a little too hard and got pregnant. The bigger problem than being pregnant was that I did not know who the father was. There was more that one possibility but they knew I was pregant and what the situation was. I have since met a man and fallen in love. We are now married and have 2 daughters together.
We want husband to adopt my son and herein lies the problem. My son knows hubby is not bio - but still considers him dad. State of FL wants paternal rights to be terminated on an unknown person. First they told us that we would have to place an ad in the paper where conception occured, then we called back on how to do that and they said we had to hire an atty because it is "100 times harder to do an unknown parent than a missing parent". Hiring an atty is not going to suddenly make us know who the father is. My son is now 12, and more than anything wants to be adopted. why does someone who knew I could be pregnant with their child 13 years ago and never lifted a finger to find out paternity, have more rights to my son that the man that has raised and cared for him the last 7 years? My husband is his father, the other guy was purely a doner. Any suggestions? We are going to place the ad (if we can figure out how to word it) and find a way to finish what we started. We already paid the $145 filing fee with the original paperwork, before they started trying to make us jump through hoops.
I will try and keep this as brief as possible, but there is a lot of information to be given.
13 years ago as a wild, irresponsible young woman, I managed to party a little too hard and got pregnant. The bigger problem than being pregnant was that I did not know who the father was. There was more that one possibility but they knew I was pregant and what the situation was. I have since met a man and fallen in love. We are now married and have 2 daughters together.
We want husband to adopt my son and herein lies the problem. My son knows hubby is not bio - but still considers him dad. State of FL wants paternal rights to be terminated on an unknown person. First they told us that we would have to place an ad in the paper where conception occured, then we called back on how to do that and they said we had to hire an atty because it is "100 times harder to do an unknown parent than a missing parent". Hiring an atty is not going to suddenly make us know who the father is. My son is now 12, and more than anything wants to be adopted. why does someone who knew I could be pregnant with their child 13 years ago and never lifted a finger to find out paternity, have more rights to my son that the man that has raised and cared for him the last 7 years? My husband is his father, the other guy was purely a doner. Any suggestions? We are going to place the ad (if we can figure out how to word it) and find a way to finish what we started. We already paid the $145 filing fee with the original paperwork, before they started trying to make us jump through hoops.
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