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stepdad wants to adopt my son

  • 22-07-2014 9:31pm
    #1
    pj9999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭


    I'm a Dad whose estranged teenage son lives with his Mum & stepdad. The Mum & stepdad also have a child between them.

    Stepdad has written to me via his solicitor hoping to instigate a 'step parent adoption' in order that my son would become a "legal member of his family, so that he would have the same legal rights i.e. inheritance rights as his sibling". My son wants this as well apparently, which I can believe.

    Despite all the efforts I've made through the years to have a relationship with my son, I haven't been able to overcome parental alienation syndrome, and I am resigned to the fact that I will never have a relationship with my son (my only child).

    That said, I'm my son's father, and he knows I'm here for him. However if there are advantages in stepdad adopting him I might be open to it.

    What logic would lie behind the request for at this point?

    Many thanks.
    P


Comments

  • #2
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    First thing that would come to mind would be for medical purposes would the adoptive stepfather be next in kin? In the case of your son requiring a procedure etc and the mother wasn't around to make the call, he would now be able to act in lieu of you?


  • #3
    goz83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,035 ✭✭✭goz83


    This same thing happened with my brother. I'm not a legal eagle, but the only benefit for you, would be the legal obligation to pay maintenance disappears. Aside from that, I don't know. If you never married his mum, it's more likely that your permission is not required and would just make the process easier. Maybe someone else can comment.


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