I would say you can, because my friends moms boyfriend adopted her.
Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.
You cannot be adopted at 17 years old. Why would they want to adopt the father of their daughter's baby?
absolutely not, no one can adopt any one without the proper court orders
If it's established who the biological father is, regardless what name is on the birth certificate, he will have to give up his parental rights in order for someone else to adopt the child. He can also go to court and have the name on the birth certificate changed to his.
If the biological father relinquishes his parental rights and the court agrees and allows the adoption to proceed.
No. The girl can not petition the court for you to adopt her. It would be possible for her father to give her up for adoption and you to adopt her. She, however, can not change the situation on her own.
the birth father would have to surrender all parental rights. then apply for adoption.
No she did not.
Unless he was designated in the Will, but the father can also challenge.
Then unless the biological father is ok with this and signs his rights over, the new husband has no legal rights to the child.
Only if that child has no other biological, blood relatives living at all. And only if that female friend is the God mother of that child, then yes. Other wise, no.
Nope! He DID, however, adopt his second wife's (Mary Joan Schutz) daughter, Katharine Anastasia, shortly after they married. Sadly, father and daughter became estranged when the latter was in her early 20s.