Advertisements
Advertisements
:( How do I go about getting my daughter back. I stopped by to tell my exwife that I was being deployed again and saw pictures on her wall of a little girl that looks just like my family.... actually my mother as a child. I asked her about it and she told me that it was a friends kid.
I contacted a mutal friend through facebook and they told me that my now ex-wife had the baby and adopted her to a friend while I was in Afganistan last. The little girl is 3.5 yr old now.
Do I have any rights to get her back? I never consented to the adoption and now after looking at the couples facebook pages they are filing for a divorce. Do I have any rights? Can I get my baby girl back? What do I do?
Like
Share
Sorry to say this, but I think the time period that you could have contested the adoption is long gone. Fathers often get the short end of the stick when it comes to relinquishment and adoption, IMHO. I'm so sorry you weren't informed that you were having a child when your girlfriend was pregnant. That sucks...
Like
Share
Advertisements
Dadof3yrold
:( How do I go about getting my daughter back. I stopped by to tell my exwife that I was being deployed again and saw pictures on her wall of a little girl that looks just like my family.... actually my mother as a child. I asked her about it and she told me that it was a friends kid.
I contacted a mutal friend through facebook and they told me that my now ex-wife had the baby and adopted her to a friend while I was in Afganistan last. The little girl is 3.5 yr old now.
Do I have any rights to get her back? I never consented to the adoption and now after looking at the couples facebook pages they are filing for a divorce. Do I have any rights? Can I get my baby girl back? What do I do?
Hi--
You need to speak to a lawyer who specializes in adoption law in your state. If the bmom knew you are the child's father yet didn't name a father, or listed someone else, there's an element of fraud.
Also, service members have multiple protections during deployments. Talk to the JAG and see if Congress has provided protections for soldiers in this specific context.
Good luck. Raven is correct, it will be very difficult to reverse the adoption at this point, but it's possible if statutes and laws weren't followed by APs/bmom/agency, etc.
Like
Share
There is a fairly new law that protects the military during deployments from having their children adopted through deceit. The last case I knew of was being fought by an attorney in Chicago.
Like
Share
I am terribly sorry to hear about your situation. My husband is going thru something similar right now, he has a 4 yr old son that he didnt know about until 2.5 yrs ago and his sons mother went to court while he was on deployment in Cuba. we are fighting for custody now and try to get help from the JAG and they said it is a "civilian matter" so they cant help us out. we are going to have to hire a civilian attorney, which is what you are probably going to have to do too. there are laws though that prevent this kind of thing from happening and if it still does it VOIDs it to a certain degree... I have a question about my husbands situation. Since his sons mother went to court without him she got "temporary" full custody of his son and he has no rights to him at all, but he pays child support... now his sons mother is getting married and wants her fiance to adopt his son, my question is; will her fiance be able to adopt his son without his consent because of the custody situation? ( i apologize for asking this on your blog but i do not know how to start one of my own)
Like
Share