QUESTION
my 2 daughters were adopted when they were 2 and 4 and are now in their upper 20's. should I have been made to pay child support, and interest on it?
Asked on Jan 20th, 2021 on Fathers Rights - Oklahoma
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an ex of mine and I had our 2 daughters taken from us and they were put into foster care. the court decided to allow the foster parents to adopt them, and terminated my parental rights, and started making me pay child support, and I fell into arrears, and now they want me to pay a total of 32k, which I have been paying on religiously since 2011. what I would like to know is, was it legal for them to make me pay child support, when they not only terminated my rights, but adopted my daughters to another family.
1 ANSWER
When parental rights are terminated by the State, the obligation to pay support is usually terminated as well; If parents give consent to an adoption or if their "consent" was found to NOT be necessary, there could be a support obligation plus interest, but the ongoing duty to support would terminate when the Adoption was finalized. You can request a review of support oblication(s) and Payments utilizing a "Record of Payments" it will clarify any accounting error or data error, which have been known to happen.
A lawyer may be able to request certain things to asist in this regard, if there are irregularities they can advise what to do to address them.
Answered on Jan 25th, 2021 at 9:40 AM