ok mom's this is my 1st post so please dont judge!!
i need some info and if there are any success stories about legal Step parent adoption????
now here's my story my middle child is 3 she met her "donor" for the first time when she was about 18m(I never kept him away he went mia when I broke up with him at 12 weeks cause he pushed me and told me "I just need to lose the baby" he stuck around being in her life when it didn't disrupt his partying, he got her every other weekend(the ones he didn't skip I mean) then outta no where disappeared!! long storey short she doesn't know him. My husband has raised her, her whole life she calls him daddy, he never calls her his step daughter matter of fact he gets really mad at anyone who says she's is step child he says she IS his. He wants to adopt her and we have been talking about it alot lately I just need some info from ppl who have done it!!
I'm trying to go through & figure out the same thing. My sons donor isn't on his birth certificate. He was abusive & constantly in and out of jail I left him in 2013.
he's not on her birth certificate he wouldn't come to the hospital when she was born he's made it very clear multiple times he doesn't want her. my husband wants legal rights for her so he can do all the daddy stuff like when it comes to something that a "parent" has to sign step parents can't sign it :( and he would like ger last name changed
that's what we r worried about my husband used to be good friends with her dad a while back and he wasn't to happy when we got married but he still hasn't tried to have any contact with her we are afraid that just to get at use one day he will try to do something. my husband and daughter have such a strong bond iv never seen a step parent bond like that it would tare my daughter to piece as well as my husband witch is why we are going about the adoption he says no matter what she's always his daughter not step just his daughter but he wants it legal as soon as he adopts her donor has no rights to her
Also even if her dad try to take her to court, you would win favor. Especially since he hasn't been there, you may have to prove it. And the court sides with the mother unless she is endangering the child, which for parets who have full custody is low. My mom and brother in law have gone through this.
I havnt went through this but I would do it bc her "father" could come and try to take her away or take I to court for it but I would think if he "adoptes her then her "father" can't do anything but again I havnt been through it so idk the law with that