Legal Question in Family Law in Pennsylvania

Re: Custody

The only way parental rights can be terminated is if the child is adopted. This is because such a termination of parental rights would also terminate his duty to pay support. Absent an adoptive parent to assume that duty the courts don't allow a termination of parental rights, otherwise it would be a way to get out of paying child support.

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