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Your Child's Painful Reality in
Life:
When your child's natural
parent has abandoned his or her responsibilities for his or her child,
that reality is surely terribly painful for both you and your child.
(The sting of this reality will probably continue to some degree for
your child's entire life.) This pain may be exacerbated by many
factors, including your child's last name being different from all other
members of his or her family unit when you and your husband having
children natural born to you both. Your spouse's natural child may feel
both the pain of being abandoned by his or her natural parent, but also
feel the pain of having a different status in the family, that of being
a "stepchild" to the only father or mother he or she has ever known.
You Wish Your Child Did Not Consider Him/Herself to be a
"Stepchild".
All in
your family probably already consider your child and his or her stepparent to
have a real, valuable, and critically important parent-child
relationship regardless of the legal stepparent-child status.
Nonetheless, both your spouse and your child may feel somewhat separated
from the other for lack of a legally and socially
completed and recognized parent/child relationship. Your situation is not unique,
for example, according to
futureofchildren.org, by the time a child of
unwed parents reaches age 7, studies indicate only about 22% of fathers
are in frequent contact.
(Winter/Spring 2002)
Stepparent Adoption is Often a Healing Option.
This painful reality of your child’s abandonment can
often be drastically minimized by having your spouse adopt his or her
stepchild. For many, adoption psychologically completes the parent-child relationship for both you spouse and his or her stepchild and
provides the child with a fundamentally improved sense of security and
belonging in your family unit. This completion can have significant
positive impact on your child’s life in many other ways. According to a
recent adoption study which can be reviewed by you at
adoptivefamilies.com, results
reveal that children adopted into families fare as well in many
important respects as those born into them.
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Establishing Parental and Custody
Rights
Before a stepparent can adopt his
spouse’s child, he must show that his spouse is the legal parent, and has legal
custody, of the child. If you don’t think you can clearly show your spouse’s
legal parentage or legal right to have custody of your stepchild, help from a
lawyer may be in order.
1. If You Are the Stepfather Who
Wants to Adopt
Parentage. Your wife will probably have no
difficulty in establishing herself as the legal parent (even if her child was
born out of wedlock), as long as there is a recorded birth certificate naming
her the mother. If she is the adoptive mother, again there is probably no
problem (unless her legal parentage was terminated through court action).
Custody. Being a legal parent is not
necessarily proof that one has a legal right to custody of the child. A mother
living with her child probably has legal custody if:
She is divorced from the legal father and has a
court order giving her sole or joint custody; or
She is divorced from the legal father, who has a
court order granting him legal custody but has voluntarily agreed to her
having actual custody; or
She became the sole custodian when the legal
father died; or
She became the sole custodian when the legal
father lost his legal parentage through legal proceedings; or • The child was
born to her out-of-wedlock, and there is no court order affecting custody of
the child.
2. If You Are the Stepmother Who
Wants to Adopt Paternity. Your spouse will probably not have
difficulty in showing himself to be the legal father of his child if the child
was born in wedlock and there is a recorded birth certificate naming him as the
father. If he is the adoptive father, again he shouldn’t have trouble proving
his status (unless his legal parentage was terminated through court action).
A man whose child was born out of
wedlock, and who has no court order declaring him to be the father, may have
some problems in proving his legal status as father. He will be presumed to be
the father, and any problems proving his legal status as father should be
surmountable if: • his name appeared on the birth certificate, • he lived with
the mother after the birth of the child and acknowledged that the child was his,
he signed a paternity statement, or
he married the mother after the birth of the
child.
Custody. Assuming your spouse is the legal
parent of his child as outlined above, and he is living with his child, he
probably has legal custody if:
He is divorced from (or was never married to)
the legal mother, and he has a court order giving him sole or joint custody;
or
He is divorced from (or was never married to)
the legal mother, who has a court order granting her custody but has
voluntarily agreed to his having actual custody; or
He became the sole custodian when the legal
mother died; or • He became the sole custodian when the legal mother lost her
legal parentage through court action.
If your husband does not have a
court order giving him custody and the natural mother is missing, he must be
prepared to explain to the court that the mother voluntarily agreed to his
having actual custody or to present some other valid explanation as to the
circumstances under which he got custody of the child.
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