New Jersey Fathers Rights Legal Questions

Thank you for your question. The best advice I can provide is that you hire a private detective to search for the man. They have access to confidential identifiers. Then you would have to get the putative father to agree to sign over his parental rights.  It’s certainly not a fait accompli!  My advice is to let sleeping dogs lie. There’s no guarantee that he will cooperate with you and it is possible that he will seek parental rights such as parenting time.... Read More

The short and most precise answer is NO. I dont care if she signs off in blood, it is not binding or enforceable in the court system and any suggestion that the court should not require the father to pay is simply untrue.  Right now, she may be of the mindset that she does not want any relationship with the father and does not want him in the child's life and tells him that if he agrees not to contact her or seek any parenting time with the baby that she will never seek child support from him. The guy may therefore say that based on that position, he is willing to walk away from the child. Unfortunately, at any point in the future, if she decides that she wants support for the child, she has an absolute right to require it and similarly, even if he pinky swears that he will never seek to visit with the child, he can change his mind and ask the court to compel her to cooperate with his efforts to be in the child's life. So, any agreement not to be in the child's life and/or any agreement not to seek child support are equally invalid and unenforceable in the court system. ... Read More