My situation is that he has been helping me raise her since she was born. We want to make it legal for him to share custody or to be able to make decisions on her behalf without me always needing to give consent. Is this a court process? and if so what should I be requesting and who do I contact?
Her father and you can grant him Temporary Guardianship, revocable at any time, but without a termination of her father's parental rights and an adoption by your boyfriend, he cannot share custody.
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