Legal Question in Family Law in North Carolina

In North Carolina, if your parental rights were terminated, you have no obligation to pay child support. If your rights were never formally terminated because the father took custody and the adoption was no longer necessary, you may still have a decent argument to avoid child support because it was initially your intent to have your parental rights terminated and but for the father butting in - your rights would have been terminated. As an incentive to get father to back off of pursuing child support you may want to consider contacting him and demanding visitation or seek some sort of joint custody where neither party would pay child support directly to the other.