Adoption Attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota
How does stepparent adoption work in Minnesota?
How does stepparent adoption work in Minnesota?
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step parent adoption is probably one of
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the easiest ways
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to adopt a child
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usually it happens when there’s a
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non-marital child
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between two parties and one of the
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parents gets married but they’re sharing
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the custody of that child with
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the other parent
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and for some reason you know the other
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parent may decide
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uh
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that they don’t want to pay child
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support or they’re incapable of paying
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child support and they want to get out
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of it
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so the only way to get out of paying
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child support is if somebody else adopts
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your child and agrees to take on that
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burden
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so a step parent can step up and say i
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will adopt your child
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and that relieves that person of any
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custody responsibilities including
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payment of support
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i’ve had people who’ve done that too get
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out of paying child support the way the
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step parent adoption works i i mean
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there’s there’s a lot of technical
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things
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there’s uh
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you know that you have to file a
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petition you have to search the database
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to see if there’s somebody that claims
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to be the father or mother of this child
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that isn’t being served in this matter
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if there’s a criminal history in the
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adopting step parents past uh there has
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to be an investigation into that and and
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generally the child welfare people will
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will do um
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do some research into a background check
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of of this adopting parent
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once that’s all done
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uh you go into the court with the child
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and you prove up your
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petition
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by stating the facts that uh
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i’m the parent i’m the step parent i’m
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going to take on the responsibility i
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agree that i’m going to pay child pay
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and support this child
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because if you do get divorced you could
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be liable for child support for that
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adopted child
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so people don’t shouldn’t take that
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lightly but it’s a relatively simple and
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painless process
Minneapolis, MN family law attorney Michael Fink explains how stepparent adoption works in Minnesota?
