Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

Six years ago I signed papers relinguishing all of my parental rights of my son, who was 7 at the time. I was behind on child support and had not gotten him for visitation for over 6 months at this time. My ex wife knew that I was having financial difficulties and was unable at the time to provide for him. I was at an extreme low in my life and felt I had no other options as I had no money for an attorney and was mentally drained. I am now and have been for the last few years a teacher and a coach and am mentally and financially doing very good. It was a horrible mistake for me to sign those papers and what I want to know is if I have any grounds to getting back into the life of my son. He has been adopted by his stepfater so he no longer has my last name. Please tell me my options or if I am going to be wasting my time trying to pursue getting in contact with my son.


Asked on 2/24/10, 9:19 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Dunn Mark D. Dunn

I'm afraid you're out of luck.

One thing you might do: Make 100% sure that they followed through with the termination and adoption suit. I have known of a couple of cases where someone signed the affidavit of relinquishment and found out years later that the suit wasn't concluded.

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Answered on 3/01/10, 12:48 pm


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