Okay, I thought I had no questions but after reading some of the answers to some of the questions I was confused. First off, my husband lives in NM and so did the birthmother of his first child. Yet, during the process of paper work to Voluntary Relinquish His Parental Rights the birthmother and child did move to SC, but we did go to court in New Mexico, My husband was in court in person while the birthmother was on the phone in SC and my husband supposedly still was able to sign his rights over. That was about 6 years ago that my husband relinquished his parental rights. He did so in a haze of hateful treatment and harassment. And a DNA test was taken and he was proved to be the father. Supposedly, my husband legally signed his rights away, yet there was no other legal fathers that took up the rights. Now, you might say that underage had something to do with it, the birthmother was 16 & my husband 21, yet in NM the age for statutory rape is 13. And the birthmother never accused my husband of rape(as far as our knowledge.) And my husband has had no relationship with the birthmother, so he had no history of abuse with her or the child. He had never seen his child and still to this day has never been involved in the childs life.
My questions are: How with all that was it possible for my husband to legally relinquish his parental rights? And is the court paperwork even legelly binding?
My questions are: How with all that was it possible for my husband to legally relinquish his parental rights? And is the court paperwork even legelly binding?