certainly
Then unless the biological father is ok with this and signs his rights over, the new husband has no legal rights to the child.
No, unless the baby's biological father relenquishes his parental rights, he would get custody of the child if the mother dies, not her husband. The biological father must sign his rights away to the mother's husband.
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.
No not unless you say you want him to in your will
If he has adopted her then he is her father and has all of the biological fathers rights transferred to him at adoption. If adopted yes
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.
He would have all of the rights that a biological father has. If he was not the biological father, then his name should not have been put on the birth certificate in the first place, unless he adopted her and the birth certificate was changed.
yes
An adoptive father is your legal guardian and is your father. A step father is a man who marries your mother. He does not have to adopt you and cannot unless your biological father agrees to give up his rights as a parent.
If you can find someone to sign your rights over to, (you do not sign the rights 'away', you transfer them) then US law can allow you to do this. For example if a couple have a child and then get divorced, and the woman later remarries, she can request that the biological father signs their child's rights over to the new husband. The biological father is then no longer responsible for the child, the new husband is. However a biological father cannot simply abandon his right just because he no longer wishes to support his child.
Marriage by itself does not bring custody rights to non-biological children. Where the children go when the biological mother dies depends on who has custody, whether the non-biological father has adopted the child, whether the biological father wants the child, and on the laws of the state where all of this is happening.
Not sure if this is true with all states, however, in the state of CA. yes.In fact, an attorney once told me, if an unmarried pregnant woman marries someone whom did NOT father the child, the husband automatically becomes the legal father when she gives birth.My assumption is, if the biological father decides to exercise his parental rights, he would need to file with the court to establish paternity.