ive some what spoken to a lawyer already but need one major question answered

You need to know whether you're the father or not before you consider child support issues. In Texas, when determining child support, the court would want to know if you had reason to know that you were the father or if you had no idea you were the father. Since it's been so long, it's not likely that you would have to pay child support for 10 years of the child's life. You should also find out if the mother told some other man that he was the father and if the child knows that man as the father. If you are the father, requesting to terminate your rights is not a good idea unless there is another man who has been acting as the child's father. The Texas Family Code contains a lot of reasons to request termination of parental rights, but avoiding child support is not one of them.