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    Question Children in One State, NCP in Another and Step-Parent Adoption

    My question involves adoption law for the State of: Georgia and Washington state

    I'll try to get to the point.

    my ex(NCP) and I were not married when we had our 2 sons. He left the day after christmas in 2007 and has not been back since nor has tried to have a relationship or communicate with the boys..He has emailed me more times than I can count, threatening to take the boys and sending off the wall "crazy talk" emails.

    I married my husband who is in the military in 2008 and we all moved from Georgia to Washington state in 2009. 4 months ago the NCP filed a petition to legitimate, get visitation and modify his child support....I found out, not by papers from the court or his lawyers but from another lawyer's advertisement for services; I in turned got a lawyer myself.

    My lawyer responded back asking the judge to send the NCP to jail for the arrears, relinquish his parental rights (We've mentioned to the NCP my husband wants to adopt the boys), have him pay for the lawyer fees, pay the child support, and have the case thrown out because of jurisdiction ( since the children and I have lived here in Wa for over 2+yrs). the case WAS thrown because the NCP's lawyer did not file the right paperwork..did I mention the lawyer is a property lawyer?.....

    Now it's been 2 weeks and the NCP's lawyer has not done anything else...My lawyers are not really doing too much either because they say they only would be doing the NCP's lawyers work by filing a mediation....

    My husband and I want to him ( my husband) to adopt the boys but he will be going underway very soon. Any advice or thoughts on this all?

    I wonder if I should tell our lawyer to push for the mediation to resolve all this or what?

    Thank you in advance

    I understand that there are a couple different topics in this- adoption, child support, visitation... I just didn't know where to post this

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    Default Re: Children in One State, NCP in Another and Step-Parent Adoption

    You have proposed to the biological father and his lawyer that he give up his parental rights so that you can proceed with step-parent adoption. How about reiterating that offer to the NCP and his lawyer, to see whether they are now interested in cooperating?

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