Can You Take Away an Irresponsible Father's Rights

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Quoting Mr. Knowitall

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The obvious answer is that she's hoping to terminate the biological father's rights. Stepparent adoption in this type of context can be beneficial to a child, and sometimes it's desperately wanted by the child.

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Just wanted to say thank you, glad someone was paying attention. :)

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Quoting Mr. Knowitall

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In other words you can't substantiate a word of what you said. Thanks for confirming that you were making stuff up. No, your silly ad hominem attack doesn't impress. Back to the regularly scheduled programming.

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So you cannot even marginally support your grand claim your reviewed "hundreds" of appeals on this topic :confused:

Quite frankly, in this instance I believe you are a LIAR :rolleyes:

Which concludes this discussion...

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Quoting Looking4advice

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The requests, payments or no payments- are you talking about the administrative reviews? I guess I am not following here...


I guess I am to the point of just letting the whole idea go. His father is in jail and will be for a long time. Like someone has already mentioned by the time he gets out my son will be 18 and have his own decisions to make at that point. Till then I am going to let the CSEA know he is incarcerated right now and see if I can get these administrative reviews postponed till his release. I know deep down I will never receive a payment from him for child support and that it will continue to be owed even after my son is well over 18 (he already owes me over $25 grand). I would like to try to be positive about it and think he’d pay it which in turn could help put my son through college but that is not the case. He has let him down too many times to try to stay positive now.

I appreciate everyone’s advice and suggestions. I will keep them in mind in the days to come. Thank you.

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Again, you are not required to participate in the administrative reviews. You can even tell the CSEA to stop enforcing your case if that is what you want.

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Quoting tex11

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So you cannot even marginally support your grand claim your reviewed "hundreds" of appeals on this topic :confused:

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I'm not anonymous. My experience is also the diametric opposite of what you are claiming. I would also like to see your research.

Updated: Looking for some statistical data, which is usually not compiled so I was surprised that something turned up, I found a 2011 law review article examining Indiana parental rights termination cases from March 1, 2008 through Nov. 30, 2009. Their overall observation was that for family law cases other than TPR the rate of reversal was 38.84%, for civil cases in general other than family law it was 35.09%, and for TPR cases it was 5.83% (3.59% based on procedural error, 2.24% based on substantive error). The article did not examine what happened after remand. The numbers are going to vary somewhat by state.