My friend's husband wants to adopt her daughter, biological father not in the picture?

Question

Her daughter's biological father left when he found out she was pregnant. Now she is married to someone different and her four-year-old daughter knows this man as her daddy. She has no idea on the whereabouts of her biological father. Is there any way that her husband can adopt her without the biological father having anything to do with it? They live in Ohio by the way and the real father's name is NOT on the birth certificate.

Answer 1

if he is not listed on the Birth Certificate than yes no problem

Answer 2

She would have to ask the court about that - the laws are different in every state. Usually if the bio father is not on the birth certificate its pretty easy to do that.

Answer 3

the child can be adopted either way, with or without the "sperm donors" name on the birth certificate.

the laws in each state are different, but i can tell you that more than likely they will have to get a lawyer/attorney to help file the paperwork needed for the adoption (unfortunately it cannot be done without one, so it will be pricey)

a lawyer/attorney can file the paperwork with the state. their will be a waiting period in which the said child's information will be "open to the public" so to speak (they post in the newspaper, etc) so that anyone who would like to claim the child as their own have the oppurtunity to do so in a period of time given. then after nobody claims him/her they can proceed with a no contestant adoption.

(even if someone were to come up and try to claim that the child was theirs they would have to do a dna paternity, so dont worry about just nobodies coming up to claim, plus the claimer would pay for the dna test themselves)

if the said "sperm donor" would be willing to sign over his rights it would be cheaper (therefore he would sign the birth certificate and at the same time sign over his rights at the same time), that is unless he would like to pay back child support plus penalties (which it sounds as if he left he will gladly do, since he didnt take his responsibilities of a MAN)..

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

If his name is not on the birth certificate, then the child can be adopted.  If the name was on the certificate they would have to find the dad and have him relinguish all parental rights.  Since the name is not on there, there is nothing showing that the daughter is his or anyone else's.  The child can 100% be adopted!!!!  However, if the dad ever comes back into the picture he can request parental rights and will possibly get them.  In turn, the step father will have to give up parental rights to the daughter, unless they can convice the court the father is not suitable to see the child.

Answer 5

The laws vary from state to state.  ... She just needs to go talk to a lawyer and find out what the laws are.  They will give you a free consultation... Sometimes all you have to do is post an ad in the classifieds about the adoption in the last known town of residency of the father.  My husband adopted my children but since I roughly knew where their 'father' was living in another state, we had to serve him with the adoption papers, he had 30 days to contest them once he was served.  If he had wanted to contest them he would have had to prove parternity because we were never married.  This was over 10 yrs ago and it cost us about $1000.  

So, if he has never been in the picture, then I doubt that he would go thru the trouble to try and stop the adoption.

Answer 6

The little girl needs to know the truth. Your friends husband is very important to her, and can raise her, but he is not her biological father. A step-father is still a father. She doesn't need a piece of paper to love him. She has the right to keep her history intact. Maybe someday she will want to search for her biological father, maybe she won't. Don't deny her the chance to know all about her biological roots.

Answer 7

Anyone can be found if you look.

There are two sides to every story.  My good friend lost his son this way and he was heartbroken.  The father needs to be informed.