My fiance’s ex-wife has not had any contact with their child for more than two years. What do I need to do to legally adopt her?
The adoption process is the act of terminating one parent’s rights and obligations and granting those rights and obligations to another. In order to terminate rights, grounds must be shown unless you have the written consent of the person who will lose the rights and obligations unless the Court finds that the natural parent has acted so as to have forfeited her right to withhold consent to the adoption.