Legal Question in Family Law in South Carolina
Family Court Law
My husband recently signed over his rights to his two children from his first marriage. His ex wife agreed to pay the lawyer fee if we would drive 3 hours and sign them where she lived. In exchange she would file the papers and omit the child support payments that we were paying her. Come to find out, she never filed them with the court and she never told us that we had to continue paying her c.s. until she called us to go to court for back child support a month later. Is there anything we can do to stop her from trying to pull the wool over our eyes? And, will the court be lienent if there is a new child in the household and payments were harder to come by?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Family Court Law
You present a complex question with lots of underlying sub-questions. Hopefully, he kept a copy of the Affiadvit for Termation of Parental Rights that he signed. If so, he can try to use that as a defense to non-payment of child support at a contempt hearing.
However, the Court will certainly ask him why he didn't follow up when he didn't get a copy of an Order terminating his parental rights.
His best recourse at this point is to consult an experienced family law attorney to find out what went wrong and what options are available to him at this point.
If you need more information, you can visit my family law blog (www.SCFamilyLaw.com) or our website (www.StevensFirm.com). I wish you the best of luck.
Ben Stevens
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