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Termination of Parental Rights

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shygurl92

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? California

If you go to court and request a termination of all paretnal Rights, would you still have to pay child support?

My boyfriends, ex has accused him in court of being a drug addict, drunk, suicidal everything she can think of... for about one year, he wasn't able to see his son, and then they agreed to give him 1 hr once a week supervised visits. All the report from the supervised visits were great! Then he got to take him out for 4 hrs once a week, picking him up @ the supervised location. Then it got to be a from 8am - 6pm on saterdays. Since his son have so much energy, we signed him up for Karate, he had so much fun, earning badges, winning trophies. One badge that every1 had that he didn't have, was the "Academic acheivment" badge. To get that, you must bring in his report card to the professor. Well, since she worked at the school, my boyfriend had a restraining order not 2 go there, and she wouldn't give him a copy of his report card. Things got tougher from there.
We would take him to the park and we would see people from the church that she goes to, we would talk with them, we went to the zoo and saw more people form the church, we took him 2 carnivals and amusment parks. Only to hear from some1 at the church she keeps on sharing once a month "my ex is teaching my son to lie! and when he see's him all he does is lock him in a room!" But we hear different storis from the little boy. He's told by his mom that he's not allowed to share anything that he does with us with anyone! He gets in trouble for bringing things that we buy or he won himself at the amusment parks, she made him bring it back 2 us the next week. For his birthday, we bought him balloons, but when she picked him up, her boyfriend popped them all. I put in his pocket a picture of him and his dad on a key chain so his mom won't see it, and he told me that he has it hidden under the sofa at home. Y does she have so much anger? Y can't she does what's in the best interest of her son? My boyfriend thinks it's better for him if he stopped seeing him since it's hurting him more when we see him. When he gets older, he can get a hold of him. His father still loves him very much but is letting go so he won't be yelled at due to visiting his father.
 


If that kids mother is that bad, don't you think it's horrible that your husband is just going to abandon his son to such a psycho. You will psychologically damage that kid by doing such a thing. Instead, your husband should petition for more rights and seek the counsel of a lawyer so that he can help you get those rights, and maybe, over time, joint custody.
 

MBMom

Member
No advice to offer. Just wanted to say sorry to hear the way things are going. The woman sounds like she has some issues. I understand it could be tough, but he should not give up on that little boy. One day when the boy is older, he will probably realize what his mom is doing, but one things for sure, if dad walks away (whatever the reason), that boy's going to grow up thinking his dad gave up on him. The mom can feed the boy all the crap she wants, but if dad's around he's going to know dad cares.
Also, in regards to terminating his rights, even if he wanted to do that, child support wouldn't be stopped. He's still responsible for supporting the child he helped bring into this world.
 

stealth2

Under the Radar Member
And..... if y'all KNOW she gets pissed when he brings stuff from Dad's, why do you give him stuff that you know will get him in trouble? Let him set up a spot at Dad's for all his stuff.
 
I just wanted to say I know I sounded harsh earlier, but I'm just trying to make a point that she (the CP) wants you to give up, and she hopes that by torturing you (and her child) that you will. If you give up, then she's won. If you don't give up, then one day, maybe she'll figure out that it isn't working and give it a rest. I feel for you though, we have to deal with the same kind of crap from my husband's ex all the time. She punishes her daughter when dad sees her.
 

Grace_Adler

Senior Member
To answer your question, yes child support DOES stop in CA when rights are terminated.

Not fussing at you at all but to everyone who wants to know about CA, this has been repeated several times on this forum. :)
 

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