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I am a single mother in Montana. My young daughter's father was requested in a court order to pay child support in a joint legal custody arrangement. He has seen her once in her two years of life and has not paid any support in over one year, and only then when his wages were garnished by a state agency. He obviously is not interested in her at all since he has not contacted us for over year and a half. We were never married, and I would now like to marry my fiance of over two years. This man would like to adopt my daughter, to whom he has been a father since her birth. In order to adopt, the biological father must rescind his rights to my daughter. I have heard that after a certain amount of time without contact or support we can go about getting his rights removed. If this is true, how long is the wait and what needs to be done legally to insure that an adoption would not be revoked later if the biological father were to reappear? I should also add that I have no idea where the biological father is. Neither does his family or any of the friends he was close to around here. He has, for all practical purposes, disappeared.