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My sister recently died and left behind a 4y/o daughter, the father has never been in the picture, never called, never even seen his daughter. My sister was making him pay child support though. My parents have always been in their granddaughter's life, in fact she spent every night at their house because her mom worked 3rd shift. Anyhow, my parents had to get gaurdianship of her in order to handle some affairs, the real father was contacted and did not object to this. Now my parents want to adopt her to keep her safe and keep the real father from trying to come after her just to get the benefits shes getting from her mom, their lawyer sent papers about adoption to his lawyer about 2 mos. ago but has heard nothing yet, what is the time period for having to wait for a reply from the real father? Can my parents adopt her without getting the father's consent? We live in PA.