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That depends on the laws in your state and whether or not the father has otherwise participated in the child's life, either by paying support or other expenses. There may be circumstances where it would be impossible for a parent to maintain visitation rights but still do other things that establishes their parental rights. You would need to contact an attorney specializing in family law in your state of residence for specifics.
If the father has had absolutely no contact with or provided support for a child for 10 years and suddenly re-enters the picture wanting contact/visitation, it is your right to petition the court for retroactive child support and get a custody/visitation agreement worked out based on the same.
Ultimately, this would, or should, be something decided by the courts if you are unwilling to reintroduce the absentee father into your child's life. An absence of that long with no contact or support would be considered abandonment in all 50 states and grounds for termination of parental rights (this is not assumed, it is something that would have to be established in court). If you did not do that, the court will ultimately decide what is in the best interests of the child, not what is in the best interests of either parent, and decide accordingly.
What else can I help you with?
If the father of the child leaves for three years does he still have rights to that child?
As long as they remain established.
Does the father have any rights if he does not sign the birth certificate and has not had anything to do with his child for 8 years since the birth?
the bio-father still has more rights as obvisouly he is the true father
Can a father still get visitations rights after being gone for 5 years?
He should its his child!
If a father does not pay child support for two years can he loose his parental rights?
I think he should
What happens when a mother does not name the father on the birthcertificate when the child is born and the man she is with is told that he is the father of this child... Then 5 years later he is told?
the man she was living with was NOT the biological father, but he was under the assumption that he was and was supporting and raising the child as his own. what rights does he have
Can a mother come back to the father for child support after he has relinquished his parental rights eleven years ago?
no
If a man signs the birth certificate and has been there since the birth of the child and find out 6 years later that he isn't the biological father what rights does he have to the child?
If you're in the US, he has the same rights as any other father, because he is the legal father (biological is irrelevant at this point).
If you are on the birth certificate have raised the child for 10 years then find out you are not the biological father what are your parental rights?
Get a lawyer. You have a couple of ways to assert your parental rights.
If natural mother dies and biological father has not seen child or talked to child in 11 years does stepfather have legal rights to keep child?
not without a court case
Does your child of 9 years have to see father with visitation rights in place UK law if he says he doesnt want to go?
The child can do anything he wants to :)
Can the mother who has full custody of a child still receive child support from the father who has not seen the child in 3 years after the father s parental rights are revoked?
Yes, the revocation of parental rights does not exclude the parent from being financially responsible until the child or children reach the age of emancipation, or the age ordered in the child support petition.
Does my child's father have rights after no communication or even seeing him after almost eight years?
Yes I believe he does if he is the boys biological father but you should talk to a judge or your lawyer
