'Signing over their rights to a child' sounds like adoption here. Most states have laws set about who can adopt. Usually people over the age of 25 and / or married couples. Not to say that you cannot adopt under the age of 25, but I do believe that you must be at least 18 to adopt a child in some states. Minors under the age of 18 are not considered adults, and therefore cannot adopt children.
Child support does not depend upon the legal relationship of the parents - instead, it is based upon the relationship between the parent and the child. Thus, parents who are unmarried are still parents and have the same parental rights and obligations to their children as a married or divorced couple would.
Yes. parents have always rights to the child. Because the exist of child in the earth is only for their parents.
In most adoptions, the rights/responsibilities of the biological parents are terminated.
An adoption is where a child is "adopted" by another couple who is not their birth parents. This gives a child a nice home and a good future...
Whether or not a couple decides to have another child can depend on many factors. Having another child could depend upon the current income of the household along with household expenses, as well as the roles that the parents play, and the responsibilities that each parent holds. The couple may not have all the resources in order to have another child.
No as that would be considered child abandonment.
The child has a right to any support ordered but not paid (actually collecting it is another matter).
Only through the adoption process.
In the US, parents have no rights over an adult child unless that adult child has been declared mentally incompetent by the court and the parents were appointed guardians as a result of that.
no, the parents of the child have more rights to the child than the grandparents.
Their rights start where the parents' rights begin. If the parents are actively parenting, the child is thriving and nothing illegal is going on, then the grandparents are honor bound to support, not supplant, the parents. If the parents are out of the picture, the grandparents can certainly apply to become guardians of the child.
None, although it is their child, they are legalley an adult so they have their own rights?