Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: Giving up Parental Rights

I assume the child will be adopted after the termination of your

parental rights. You will not be the child's legal parent. The child

will not inherit through you (in most cases), nor will you inherit through

the child. You will have no right to visitation, nor any right to resume parenting

even if the adoptive parents die. You will have no right even to contact the

child, or to know how the child is doing. (Some limited contact rights when

the child reaches 18 are provided by law, and some additional contact rights

are possible in "open adoptions", but except for kinship adoptions, open

adoption agreements may not be enforceable in California.)

The pros are that you will not be liable for support of the child, nor responsible

to raise the child. The child may be able to be brought up in a home

better for the child. You may solve current financial problems.

Re: Giving up Parental Rights

You dont get to see the kid. That can be a pro or a con depending on the kid