The Florida Courts believe that it is in the best interest of a child to have two parents to provide a source of support, inheritance, and family to a child. The courts will not terminate parental rights in order for you to end a child support obligation except when there is a step parent adoption. In order to have a step parent adoption, the child's mother must have married or remarried if you were married to her, and her husband must be willing to adopt the child as his own. In this way the child will still have two parents. Absent a step parent adoption the courts will not take away a parent from a child and will not terminate your parental rights or end your child support simply because you and the mother want to. The courts consider the child's best interests and not yours.
Answered on May 30th, 2013 at 3:48 PM