Termination of Parental Rights

1. Is non-payment of child support grounds for terminating the non-custodial parent’s parental rights?
2. If the non-custodial parent simply wants to give up his rights, will the court approve an order terminating these rights?
3. What are some grounds that the court would find sufficient to terminate the non-custodial parent’s rights?
4. What is the legal effect on the parent child relationship if the non-custodial parent’s rights are terminated?
5. If the custodial parent remarries and the new step parent wishes to adopt the child, will the court then accept the biological parent’s voluntary relinquishment?
6. If the custodial parent remarries and the new step parent wishes to adopt the child and the biological parent objects, will the court grant the adoption over the objections of the natural parent?
7. If the court terminates the parent’s rights to the child, does the terminated parent have any right to post termination contact with the child?
8. If a suit to terminate is filed and the party then wishes to dismiss it, can the court do so?
9. Where parties are divorced and sometime after, the father determines that he is not the father of the child, can he avoid the child support obligation by filing a petition for termination?

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