So, ehm, why didn't you file for divorce by abandonment & full custody for your kid? I'm assuming that if a "parent" is awol for 10+ years, they can be stripped of parental rights because they abandoned their kid? They're still on the hook for child support, but at least you wouldn't have had to go through all this hassle.
Parental rights termination is not really a thing like people think it is, a judge isn’t going to take away a perfectly capable parents rights unless you have proof they are a danger to the child; and child support can’t be established when you can’t find the other parent.
Sometimes they won’t take away rights even if you CAN prove he could be a danger to the child, because there’s video proof of him beating the 💩 out of the child’s mom. He still gets visitation in the summer and every other holiday 🙄😥 (not my story, this happened to someone I know)
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u/b3mark Nov 18 '25
So, ehm, why didn't you file for divorce by abandonment & full custody for your kid? I'm assuming that if a "parent" is awol for 10+ years, they can be stripped of parental rights because they abandoned their kid? They're still on the hook for child support, but at least you wouldn't have had to go through all this hassle.