Reverse step-parent adoption

[Antigone*]

Geez, you people aren't very creative.

Tell hubby it's a new tool belt for him. He obviously won't want it, so he'll throw it in the trash and you can grab it.

Very cool Misto, he definitely won't want a hot pink tool belt!!!!

 

[LdiJ]

Oh, snap.

You're absolutely right - I missed that completely!

Well, there are next of kin issues.

I have seen some adult adoptees want to do so simply because they didn't want their adoptive parent (or even their natural parent) to be their next of kin...sometimes for very good reasons. If you are estranged from a parent for good reason, you might not want them making medical decisions for you if you are incapacitated.

You can get around that by issuing a POA to someone else, but those can be challenged in court.

 

[Antigone*]

Well, there are next of kin issues.

I have seen some adult adoptees want to do so simply because they didn't want their adoptive parent (or even their natural parent) to be their next of kin...sometimes for very good reasons. If you are estranged from a parent for good reason, you might not want them making medical decisions for you if you are incapacitated.

You can get around that by issuing a POA to someone else, but those can be challenged in court.

I don't disagree with you Ld. I have a suspicion that natural father has passed and that is why she is looking to be "unadopted." Again, that is just speculation on my part since the OP worded her question so carefully.

 

[xylene]

Important

You really want to use a framed picture.

 

[LdiJ]

I don't disagree with you Ld. I have a suspicion that natural father has passed and that is why she is looking to be "unadopted." Again, that is just speculation on my part since the OP worded her question so carefully.

She did say that she had her biological father's family's support on the matter. That kind of tends to preclude what you were speculating.

 

[Proserpina]

She did say that she had her biological father's family's support on the matter. That kind of tends to preclude what you were speculating.

It actually supports what Tigi said - OP worded it very carefully and specifically used the phrase "biological father's family's support" which suggests biological father may not even be in the picture, let alone "on board" with the idea.