Legal Question in Family Law in Rhode Island

If the step-father adopts the children then you are no longer responsible to pay child support. However, your question is deeper than this. You ask if you should give up this fight? That is a personal decision that you must make and not necessarily a legal decision. Child support and visitation are separate and distinct from one another. You don't pay child support in order to get visitations with your children and a non-payment of child support likewise does not entitle a parent to deprive you of visitation rights. There is too much information missing here to help you. If the children do not want to "hang out" with their father then clearly they must know that you are alive. Under what circumstances did the judge determine that the children didn't want to hang out with you. Did the judge speak with the children? Was a motion to consider the preference of the minor children filed? This seems a bit young for the judge to give such strong credence to what they have said (assuming he has heard this from them directly as opposed to your ex-wife's attorney.

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