Legal Question in Family Law in Virginia

parental rights

What exactly does it mean to terminate parental rights? Can a parent do this themselves? If so does a judge or the ex have a say in this?


Asked on 6/19/03, 1:23 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: parental rights

Terminating parental rights is just what it says:

extinguishing all the rights that any parent has

to make decisions, whether major or minor, in the lives of his or her child(ren). Only a court of proper jurisdiction has the power to do this.

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Answered on 6/25/03, 6:59 pm


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