You would need to file a petition for name change in Circuit court. Then you’d have a quick hearing in front of a circuit Judge. Some Judges will...

Since your guardianship came about after fostering the child, I assume that the Court found that the birth parents were unfit as part of the...

Since you are not married to your “significant other“, if you adopt your stepchild, it will have the unintended consequence of terminating his...

Your wife legally is no different than a stranger to you son. She could file a Petition for guardianship if you got hit by the "proverbial bus"...

Your POA “died” when the relative died. The executor of the estate will have to authorize / deal with your claim because it is technically an...

It sounds like you need to file an action in Probate to probate his estate. You don't say if your husband had a will or not. Either way, you are...

You can't just file a case to terminate his rights. You'd have to do that as part of a single parent adoption case. You'd have to give him...

Your husband could adopt your son. This would sever bio dad’s rights and make your husband your sons’s legal father. You would also be able to...

You can ask the court to waive his consent if he, “for a period of at least one (1) year has failed significantly without justifiable cause (i) to...

It sounds like a single parent adoption is what you need. This will terminate any rights the biological father has to the child. Is he on the...