First of all,I would like to thank Sneezyone for replying to my post. It has been 5 months now and we have found that in Ohio we have to have an attorney (the courts won't even let us have the paperwork and acted "huffy" about us picking up "consent to adopt" forms as our atty advised us to do to help cut our costs-not having him do it). Anyway, I went online and looked at Ohio's laws for termination of rights and found very quickly that several applied to my ex. Including being convicted of abuse to the child OR SIBLING of the child and also rape. I did write to him in prison and request he sign off, but I haven't heard a reply and don't really expect one so we are going to proceed in May-after giving him 30 days to reply. Wish us luck-will keep you updated.
