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Originally posted by sunnybunny
I'm not exactly sur ehow the deal went down, but I know he hadn't made any of his child support payments in years and had left town to catch the "perfect wave" and she wanted him to give up rights so that her current husband could adopt and he said "OK, and um, can i get out of paying the piles of money I haven't paid" and she said "ok." He went on surfing without a care for years and only had mild interest in his child when he came into town to hit his parents up for money.
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You're making my point for me. She basically waived thousands of dollars of overdue support to which her
child was entitled by law, in exchange for a convenient way to terminate Husband A's parental rights. My guess is that her "waiver" of her child's right to support was ineffective, because it wasn't her right to waive. Waiving support is against public policy, because it deprives the child of the monetary earning capacity of two parents and increases the likelihood the kid will require public assistance of some sort.
She could probably stick Husband A for all those past-due payments (if the child was adopted by Husband B, there probably haven't been any more accruing in the meantime). She should go after that past due support in the interest of her child. There is no free lunch. As for the child's shock in finding out em has a deadbeat dad, that's the chickens coming home to roost. Lying to kids about their parentage is bad juju --- it just delays the inevitable Reckoning and makes it more emotionally jarring. Jack Nicholson was in his 30s when he learned his dead sister was really his dead mother. Can't imagine that was real fun either.
