Can you lose your parental rights if you have not been seeing your child for several months?

A person's parental rights aren't automatically lost in Louisiana due to his or her failure to communicate with his or her child. However, that person's consent is not required for the child to be adopted by a step-parent or relative in an intrafamily adoption if he has failed to communicate or attempt to communicate with the child for over 180 days. If this is the case, give me a call and I'll be happy to help. I represent people in adoptions throughout Louisiana.

Your soon to be ex-son-in-law will not lose any rights unless there is an adoption. If there is little or no contact or support for six months, a parent may lose the right to object to an adoption, such as a step-parent adoption. These are some of several circumstances a court looks at to determine if the parent has the right to object. Note, even if the parent loses the right to object to an adoption, the parent is still entitled to notice and can still oppose the adoption.