Terminated rights, but stopped paying support ...

[Mocabluu]

[Florida] Sarasota county if it helps.

I have a three year old who's father voluntarily terminated his rights to enlist in the military. (someone told him he couldnt be a single parent to enlist). My lawyer drafted the paperwork and he signed. Here's what he has:

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No rights to the child.
No right to visitation (only if I ok it)
Still obligated to pay CS.
Still obligated to cary health insurance for child.
Mother is no longer bound to the state of Florida.
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-He makes sparatic payments
-Upwards of $8-9000 in back CS
-Do I have to prove what he has and has NOT paid ?
-Owes near $7,000 in medical bills/doc visits/perscriptions

To this day never carried insurance for her on his own. (if he does not have insuance for her, he is responsible for 100% of any bills acrued from doctors/perscriptions/hospital visits/etc)

After this past week of him promising her he would call and spend tons of time with her, he bailed, and i havent heard from him. So I am fed up with his shenaniganz, and I'm ready to take him for contempt of court. I however need advice from any women or men who have been through this or any similar situation on how to handle this and what i should do first. I don't know where to start!

Thank you sooo much for any help.
Samantha [Florida]What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

 

[Proserpina]

OP, what is it you want to accomplish?

(Dad cannot btw, terminate his rights like that - and he does NOT have to terminate his rights to go into the military....he just can't be sole custodian)

 

[waitinMd]

do you have a court order for child support?

has paternity been established?

your lawyer can not terminate his rights? Only a Judge can do that.

 

[Proserpina]

Never mind. Read your other posts.

So.

Unless a court has ruled that Dad's rights are terminated, Dad has NOT terminated his rights. You were told this last year.

So is this court ordered?

 

[Proserpina]

do you have a court order for child support?

has paternity been established?

your lawyer can not terminate his rights? Only a Judge can do that.

(posting history )

 

[Mocabluu]

its aboulutely court ordered. signed sealed delivered by a judge. I am under the understanding that the father/mother cannot terminate their rights to just disapear, and I agreed to foster a relationship between him and my daughter as well as the paternal grandparents to the best of my abilities. Which is why he is still ordered to pay CS and insurance so that if it was his origional intent to run away, he couldnt do so. he's still legally financially responsible for the child, even if he is not physically responsible for her or any decision pertaining to her well-being, etc.

 

[Ohiogal]

its aboulutely court ordered. signed sealed delivered by a judge. I am under the understanding that the father/mother cannot terminate their rights to just disapear, and I agreed to foster a relationship between him and my daughter as well as the paternal grandparents to the best of my abilities. Which is why he is still ordered to pay CS and insurance so that if it was his origional intent to run away, he couldnt do so. he's still legally financially responsible for the child, even if he is not physically responsible for her or any decision pertaining to her well-being, etc.

His rights were not terminated. If the child support is court ordered, file a motion to show cause. Send a copy of the court orders to his command and see that they pay it.