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Is Step-parent Adoption Really This Hard?
It appears that step-parent adoption is just a way for my state to give my daughter's biological father the benefit of the doubt time and time again...I, already giving the benefit of the doubt for almost six years, am done with it. He is not on the birth certificate, he has never paid child support, he does not see her and according to the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access site, he has recently gone to jail for Domestic Abuse against his wife. In the meantime, I have also gotten married and my little girl desperately wants to have the same last name as her mom, "dad" and new step-sister. She is in kindergarten and just wants to have the name that we all have.
I will never understand how her birth father can have ABSOLUTELY no part in her life, yet I still have to go to him to ask to have her name changed and ASK to list someone as her father on her birth certificate.
It is crazy. He does not want to love her, SPEND TIME WITH HER or financially support her...my husband does ALL of that and more, but legally he has no rights. How can this be?
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