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Kg27
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- Ohio
My fiance has full custody with the mother of the child having no visitation(per the papers she could initiate at any time). She's had no contact since 2013- and she's sporadically paid child support with an accrued balance of around 5k owed- and the amount she pays now(for about two months now) a month is less than ordered. We were planning on adopting after getting married (next fall). She now wants to petition for custody/visitation because she's realized another woman is raising her child. During all custody hearings in the beginning(2013), she did no show up for custody hearings, so the father was awarded full rights. What's the right steps to take? Can we petition to terminate her rights at this point for abandonment and no contact? Can she actually get visitation despite not being active the past three years? Originally the judge told him the biological mother would have no chance of seeing her in the future because she didn't show up to the custody hearings.