My question involves paternity law for the State of: Georgia
So I made my appt with a fam lawyer to talk step parent adoption and I grabbed out my tpr and she said to make sure I bring every paper I have. I laughed and said "well thats easy because I only have 3 pages" and she seemed really surprised. are they supposed to be thicker than this?? i mean we've got an intro sentence, the order w/ a lame excuse of never having established a familial bond (with a 6 day old newborn) and then the final sentence waiving my right to past and future child support.
Furthermore my TPR was filed against everything I have ever read (signed when my son was 6 days old. no real basis behind it beyond he didnt want to pay child support and i wanted to keep my kid. and there was no one there to adopt my son either so it wasnt filed as part of an adoption. I was on state aid at the time, medicaid and food stamps.
in my sparley printed 3 paragraphs, it cites o.c.g.a 19-8-12 and everything I've found about that talks strongly of adoption and then something about notifying bio and he has 30 days to object to the adoption. did i mention i hate trying to read law!
these papers haunt my sleep. everyone who sees them and knows legal papers has always said something interesting about them... but even if for some reason they were incorrectly filed or whatever... its been 4 years... last contact i had with them was when they send my daughter (child of my husband not bio mind you) a baby shower present. and that was about 2 years ago and the contact was i opened it and sent it back...
and yes i know i have an appt with a lawyer but i gotta get some sleep before then and i'm mostly just looking for info on if a tpr, the "almighty scumbag order" really fits into a few sentences... I really think I would have expected more with all the papers we were signing and everything his lawyer (yes i went to his lawyer.. broke new mama couldn't afford help) was walking us thru... maybe he got more papers but considering I had to beg for what i have. bio tried to say that i didn't have any right to the papers and that they didnt concern me. tell that to EVERYONE who wants to know why the father line is empty in my child bc..

