My question involves adoption law for the State of: Maine. My husband has been the main father figure in my daughters life since she was three months old she will be three in a few months and he would like to adopt her. She has never met her real dad and he is not on her birth certificate. He lives in misssouri which is where I moved from when I was three months pregnant because he was abusive. How do we go about the adoption process and do we have to terminate her fathers rights first or does he not have any because he's not on her birth certificate??

