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    Default Adoption in Arkansas

    I live in Arkansas and my husband of five yrs. wants to adopt my two girls age 11 and 8. Their bio. father has not been in the picture every since I was pregnant with the second child. We were married but the divorce was granted when the second child was 2 weeks old. He has never paid the girls a dime of child support and has only seen them 1-2 times in 8 yrs and 5 months. we do not even know where he is or even might be. How will this affect my husband adopting the girls? Isn't there a law about his rights being terminated b/c of no support or contact in that time frame? Do we even need his concent?

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    Default Re: adoption in Arkansas

    Based on what you described you may very well not need his consent--there are several bases for adoption where consent of the other parent is not required. I think what you are talking about specifically is found in ACA 9-9-207(a)(2) which provides that consent of the other parent is not required if the parent for at least one (1) year has failed significantly without justifiable cause to communicate with the child or failed to provide care and support for the child as is required by law or judicial decree.

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