If you sign over your parental rights to a child do you still have to pay child support?
● I know for a fact that in Florida you can not terminate your parental rights, unless someone else is willing to adopt the child. I told an attorney what my wife had told me, prior to adopting her daughter, that if I adopted her and we divorced I could terminate my parental rights since I was not the biological father. The attorney said “she told you what, sorry”. I am now going through a divorce with this woman and have been stuck with paying her child support for a child who does not want to see me nor do I wish to see. So anybody reading this before you adopt please seek the advice of an attorney. Do not take your wife’s / husband’s word this could save you thousands of dollars especially if you are being pressured from her and her family as I was. I told her divorce is never good and she told me how important this was to her and how she would never go back on her word. I was right divorce is never good!
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