LeeGalBarB
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FLORIDA
In 2008 I relinquished my parental rights (mother) to a child I had when I was 17. I had some issues with drugs when I was younger and after a nasty custody battle, I gave physical custody to the father with very fair visitation. After a few visits, he refused to let me see the child and proclaimed the only way I would be able to see her would be to continuously file contempt courts and involve the police. I refused to to this, for reasons pertaining to the child's emotional state of being as well as my own. After I had a baby in 2006 and had not seen my first born in 4 years, I agreed to sign off my parental rights and allow the stepmother to adopt, as it seemed the child was loved and well cared for by her parental units.
The child is now nearly a teenager and not in an ideal situation as I had hoped. She is going back and forth from one side of the country to another, with inadequate accommodations for school, being left with a grandparent of questionable mental state, and sexually active.
I have cleaned my act up BIG TIME and am working on an undergrad degree in political science, own my own house and am an excellent parent to two young children, financially stable with a good criminal record for nearly 10 years. While I understand I gave up my parental rights and have little grounds on which to intervene, I do have concerns for the child and believe myself the only person who can help her from a situation that is developing from bad to worse.
Should her situation reach a detrimental state as I foresee it will; is there any kind of petition I can file and have a chance of it being heard and considered? I think electronic discovery would yield some very disturbing facts pertaining to the stepmother.
Thank you in advance!!
In 2008 I relinquished my parental rights (mother) to a child I had when I was 17. I had some issues with drugs when I was younger and after a nasty custody battle, I gave physical custody to the father with very fair visitation. After a few visits, he refused to let me see the child and proclaimed the only way I would be able to see her would be to continuously file contempt courts and involve the police. I refused to to this, for reasons pertaining to the child's emotional state of being as well as my own. After I had a baby in 2006 and had not seen my first born in 4 years, I agreed to sign off my parental rights and allow the stepmother to adopt, as it seemed the child was loved and well cared for by her parental units.
The child is now nearly a teenager and not in an ideal situation as I had hoped. She is going back and forth from one side of the country to another, with inadequate accommodations for school, being left with a grandparent of questionable mental state, and sexually active.
I have cleaned my act up BIG TIME and am working on an undergrad degree in political science, own my own house and am an excellent parent to two young children, financially stable with a good criminal record for nearly 10 years. While I understand I gave up my parental rights and have little grounds on which to intervene, I do have concerns for the child and believe myself the only person who can help her from a situation that is developing from bad to worse.
Should her situation reach a detrimental state as I foresee it will; is there any kind of petition I can file and have a chance of it being heard and considered? I think electronic discovery would yield some very disturbing facts pertaining to the stepmother.
Thank you in advance!!
