No a stepparent can only adopt if the birth father or mother relinquishes their parental right of the child.
Shouldn't, but mothers do it anyway.
In all states they have sole custody, but in Arkansas, it has the clearest expression of this. see link below
Yes, a father can change his child's last name. However, this depends on the custody arrangement, and who has primary custody.
Boyfriend or husband (unless he is the biological father) has no legal right to the child at all. The mother can try to go for full custody though.
For example, a Stanford study of 1,000 divorced couples selected at random found that divorcing mothers were awarded sole custody four times as often as divorcing fathers in contested custody cases. A study of all divorce-custody decrees in Arlington County, Virginia over an 18 month period found that no father was given sole or even joint custody unless the mother agreed to it. According to Frank Bishop, the former director of the Virginia Division of Child Support Enforcement, almost 95% of custody cases in Virginia were won by mothers.
Not unless you are in a custody battle. It is only if you are going out of the country that you need consent
no
They can be held in contempt which is grounds for a change of custody.
Shouldn't, but mothers do it anyway.
when or why? Mothers will lose custody if they are found unfit by a family court
Not unless he has established his paternity legally and has obtained joint legal custody.
yeah I believe you can, I think you get a choice when you are 13 which parent you want to live with
Yes, provided they have learned their lesson. Unfortunately, the same is not applied to mothers with criminal backgrounds.
Only the legal guardian can sign so if the parents are divorced he can sign if he has full legal custody. Otherwise not.
file for custody
No, not unless the court has awarded custody to the relative and the only way that will happen is the parents are proven to be unfit, and it takes A LOT to prove unfitness.
Yes they can