You may attempt to contact the biological father to request he give up his parental rights. If he is willing to do this, any family law attorney can process the paperwork.
If you are unable to contact the father, you can petition the courts to terminate his rights as an absentee. Again, a competent family law attorney can process this for you.
Then unless the biological father is ok with this and signs his rights over, the new husband has no legal rights to the child.
yes
certainly
You need an attorney. They will have to post through the courts for anyone who might be the father.
Your actual father (biological father or husband of your mother at the time of your birth) does not need to adopt you; you are already his child. What is usually more relevant is "how does your step-father adopt you" or "how does your dad get exclusive custody of you." The answers to these questions differ greatly from state to state and country to country.
You need your husband to adopt your son.
Your husband has no rights over the child because he did not help in the creation of the child, but he can legally adopt her.
The first step is to contact a Family law lawyer, they will then walk you through the necessary steps such as terminating the rights of the biological father (or assisting you with the paperwork necessary for the biological father to sign his rights away) you will then go to court for the final adoption paperwork and voila! It's all usually very simple as long as your daughter's biological father does not contest it.
no
I spoke with a retired judge in Kansas City, and he laughed at the idea.
now a stepfather can't adopt a child without the concent of the child's father
No. The biological father can give up his rights and if your husband then want to be more than a step parent, who have no rights to the child, can adopt your child. Or not, that is your choice as the parent.