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If you are looking out for thebest interest of your daughter, which it certainly seems like you are, than adoption is the way to go. The fact that he has a criminal record will help you. Get a copy of his criminal record for your case. Save any and all contact that you have with him. Try to keep contact written, certified mail, or even emails, just print them out and save them. That way he can never go back on his word or lie in court, because you have it all in writing.
You percieve anything he says, or does, as a threat to you, or your family you in ANY way AT ALL get a restraining order on him. That will also help your case.
Go down to public records and see what you can pull up on him that may be useful in court. If he has gotten himself into considerable debt, you can argue that he cannot support the child. See if you can get people that know him on your side that could testify on your behalf in court. Do you have any contact with his family, are his parents, grandma and grandpa? Would they help you severe ties with their son? When you are building a stepparent adoption case, you really have to think outside the box! Again, just sueing him for child support may simply scare him away. It has worked in many cases that I have heard of.
And the main reason that I adopted my stepson, is that he asked me to! I wanted him to have a stable loving family, and for him to know that he will have a mom forever who will never leave him. My husband was also afraid that if something happened to him, that my son would go to his biological mother, which was an abusive situation. Many of the same reasons and concerns that you have with your daughter, are the same for our adoption.
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