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A friend of mine who has been fostering a little boy for over a year now whose birth mom signed TPR (is that the right term?) found out yesterday that the potential birth father (2 others named by birth mom turned out not to be birth father) has said that if he is bio dad he wants custody of child. Apparently, he is a convict and has 2 other children that are being raised by his mom in another state.

Friend was told it will take 3 months (!) to get DNA testing done. If this man is the bio father, is that the end of the story? In other words, if he wants to take custody of this little boy, will he automatically be able to? I don't know enough about this stuff. I presume that he would be able to because there is no "reason" why he cannot, right? I feel really sad for my friend right now.