CAn someone answer this question for me please??

Question

If you relinquish your parental rights. Can you go back through the court system to reestablish your rights?? How would you go about doing this?? My boyfriend wants us to adopt his daughter but he relinquished his rights.

Answer 1

You need a good lawyer. Basically you're renegotiating a contract. I'm guessing the other side has no reason to renegotiate with your boyfriend.

If there was fraud you would have a good case, but somehow I doubt this is the reason.

Answer 2

The court system may not be the best bet, but that does not necessarily mean that all is lost. Who is the parent now? Does the mother or other guardian want him back in the child's life? If not, why not? What would it take? The road from giving up your child to being ready to step up to parenthood is very long. Just saying "I am ready now" is not enough. People can change and love for his daughter can be a powerful motivator, but the other party may be justifiably suspicious. In theory, the girl needs her dad, even if she has a step-father now. In practice, is that dad really ready and able to be there for her in some way? The deal now is that someone else makes that decision and changing their mind may seem impossible. Still, there is nothing else more important, even if it takes years and years and radical changes in lifestyle. It may take until she is a teenager, but won't she be glad then to know that he spent the whole time trying his best to get back to her?

Answer 3

He has no more rights to his daughter than I do. Relinquishing parental rights is permanent.

Answer 4

Potentially, I think it's possible, but having relinquished those rights, the assumption that he deserves them no longer on his side. He needs to prove that he somehow deserves them back, or that his ex- isn't fit, I'd think.

But I'm no expert.

Answer 5

ONLy if he could prove the family that has her is unfit. and in harms way. Otherwise, no, it's forever.