Yes. You are obligated to pay child support in AZ even if your parental rights are severed.
Yep.
All child support arrearages that are validated by a court order must be paid in full even if the obligated parent is granted a termination of parental rights.
no you won't be held for child support but you really need to think about signing your rights away cause once you sign the papers you will not have contact with the kids at all.
Relinquishing parental rights does not terminate one's child support obligation. But if you're the one petitioning this, the court is going to question why you would want to retain it while cutting off his access to the child?
Terminating parental rights does not mean you are no longer obligated to support the child so you still have to pay child support. Unless the child is adopted. You will have no rights to the child at all if you have your rights terminated and the court will not give them back so be sure what you are doing.
If you relinquish your parental rights, you are still not going to get child support payments. The child support is for the child.
by "signing over rights" I persume you mean, terminating her parental rights and no, she is not obligated to pay child support, however, any accumulated back child support, or "arrears" is required to be paid, unless agreed otherwise. For this you would have had a prior order to pay support prior to the terminating of the mother's rights. When your rights to a child is terminated it is as if the child was never yours and your rights to the child, and obligation for the child are forever terminated.
Yes, voluntarily relinquishing your parental rights does not excuse you from having to pay child support.
Relinquishing parental rights does not terminate support; however, generally, adoption does.
Giving up parental rights has nothing to do with paying support. As the natural father, you are obligated to support the child the mother will be raising and can be ordered to do so by the court. You made the decisions; the consequences are yours. Think of the child and his or her needs through childhood. Would you want to be left behind because your father didn't want to support you?
Parental rights and child support are two different issues. Signing over your parental rights has no effect on your payment obligation unless the ending of the payment obligation is mentioned on the document.
Termination of parental rights does not terminate one's child support obligation.