Legal Question in Family Law in Kansas
i am the daughter of a very wealthy man that i never met but has lived 20min.away from me all my life.He didn't want anything to do with me or my mother. She was from the wrong side of the tracks so to say. He didn't want his family to know so I was denied all that could have been. My mother rasied me in very poor condishions with little money. No child support no call to check on me. Later my mother married a man that did adopt me. I didn't have a say in it because i was just a small child. Thinking some day my true father would save me from the abuse that was now in my life. But that day didn't ever happen. As i started my own family i wanted to share with my father that i now had 3 sons and would like to meet him. This was not for money but love and in hopes of a relationship. He was not interested. I then knew I didn't need someone in my life like that. Years passed and I became a grandmother so I call my fathers mother to tell her who i was and i was a grandmother and that i would want to know if i had a grandchild i didn't know about. And again i was denied she was not interested in me. Still wanting to keep me a family secret. Will im 44yrs. old and now i want to sue for my birthright. Ive had enough of the poor life its time for my boys to continue there education and that's not going to happen with out money.I don't want my kids to go through anymore of not having the things others take for granted. Please help
1 Answer from Attorneys
Yours is a very strange case. In order to come close to what you seek, you will have to undo the adoption. As an adopted child, you have little or no claim to your biological parent's finances, property or person. Teh grounds under which an adoption can be undone are limited. If your biological father's parentla rights were not properly terminated, he ay seek toundo the adoption. it is unclear if you even have standing to request the recission.
Assuming there wa paternity determination that sayd the wealthy man is yrou bilogical father, then you may have to persuade him to seek the termination. If there has not already been determination of paternity, then you may ahve to wait until he dies to get a court to order one. Since you are over twenty-one there is no basis for a child support Order, so there may be no grounds for forcing a paternity determination pre-death.
If you are unsuccessful in gettin ghte adoption rescinded, and ther has been no prior determination of paternity, then there appear sto be no plausible legal means for you to obtain any of this man's property or money.
Good luck
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