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Hello,
I'm new on here and am looking for any information or contacts anyone may have on my issue.
I have a daughter who I consider my own, as does she consider me. I am all she's known. She is 5, and I have been around her since she was 3 months old. I met her when I was dating her mother, whom I married a few years ago. We have since divorced, and once things went sour, she avoided the adoption process we agreed we would do soon after we were married. Her biological father has never wanted anything to do with her, or has ever helped out. And now the mother is living very unstable, and I may not be able to see my daughter, as she is considering moving far away.
My question is, do I have any rights or ways to start the adoption process legally now that we are divorced? Do I have a case as a "stepfather" technically? I would like to obtain custody rights. I am unsure of what I would have to do in order to start this process. Anything anyone knows, or has seen, or any contacts would be forever helpful. We live in Michigan if that matters? Thank you all for your consideration.
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Thank you so much for your kind words and response. I am going to look someone up in the area that deals with these sort of things, and see if I do have any options before I stop. I have kind of heard basically what you are saying, but you never know. I am thinking that her rights should be terminated from things I have seen/heard, so hopefully that is a route that is open.