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    Default Adopting Girlfriend's 3 Children

    My question involves adoption law for the State of: WI

    My Girlfriend and I have been dating for a year and a few months. We have known each other for 2 years. 1 year prior to dating and dating for 1 year. We have moved in together along witht her kids. Here ex-boyfriend now wants partial custody of the kids. She went to child support court in ramsey county minnesota in June of 2008, and the ruling was for the dad to pay $75/month plus half of the medical insurance, co-pays, and scripts. Also the ruling stated that he had no parenting time. Since this happened we moved to Hudson, WI. The kid's dad is now filing for partial custody and visitation. Here is my question: Can I adopt the kids if we are not married? and If I can adopt the kids will this cut him out of the picture? The children's father has made no effort to pay child support since the ruling, and has done nothing but harrass my girlfriend. Side note: The dad did not show up to child support court.

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    My question involves adoption law for the State of: WI

    Here is my question: Can I adopt the kids if we are not married?
    No.

    You cannot adopt the children if you are married either, unless the Father wishes to legally sign off and you go to court, and a judge makes it so.

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    Default Re: Adopting Girlfriend's 3 Children

    So, I cannot adopt them at all. Whether we are married or not?

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    Default Re: Adopting Girlfriend's 3 Children

    You can adopt... but only if the father is either willing to sign over his rights or is unable to be found or is unable to sign (death).

    You cannot take a child away from a parent that wants him/her.

    In addition, practice is that judge's will want you and the mom to be married a while before you can adopt.

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