Legal advice on Child abandonment and custody

My husband has had full physical sole custody of my stepdaughter for 7 years while bio mom has visitation rights only. My concern with my husbands health not being the best is if something happens to him is there something we can sign or do so I obtain some type of rights in the event something happens to him? Child has lived with me and I have raised her with him for 8 years now,she’s my big babygirl I just worry if something happens to him bio mom will take her from me.

My husband packed up and left via tex a year ago to move in with his girlfriend, who is now pregnant. He has not paid any bills, mortgage, child support. We have always had seperate bank accounts and I’ve paid all the bills. Am I able to keep my house, and get sole custody of my daughter and get child support?

I received my daughter about four years ago from her mother's grandmother due to child neglect purposes, she has not been a part of her life since and she is only 5 not to mention that the mother has been incarcerated multiple times for various reasons as well as child neglect - abuse

We have lived in my fathers home since I was pregnant with my daughter. She is now 6. I was married to her father but he has been out of her life since 2018 and has never paid support. Recently, 3 of my daughters told their therapist that my ex husband sexually abused them. It is under investigation and it includes the daughter we share. He currently has no custody or visitation, however I would like to terminate his parental rights and my dad wants to adopt her since he has been in her life daily since birth and also helps support her. Can he adopt her without me losing my rights. He and my mom divorced in 2010 and he never remarried.

It’s been over 6 months since my ex has seen or reached out to me about our daughter . I have sole custody and now my fiancé wants to adopt her and she as well wants to be adopted by him . How do I go about this process to have my ex’s rights taken and my fiancé to adopt her ?

My sons birth mom left when he was 2 months old. No contact was made for over 12 years. She reached out 3 months ago and have spoken a handful of times. Shes now threatening to take us to court because she knows whats best for him. Can I terminate rights due to child abandonment? Am I protected in anyway? My wife has been his mother for 8 years now,is adoption even a possibility now? I'm concerned that since none of this was done,now that she's reached out she will have the same rights as when she left 12 years ago. Any help is greatly appreciated!

My husband and I were awarded full custody of a distant relatives child in April of 2021. He had already been with us a couple of months at that point, before that he was in foster care for almost a year. The putative father was supposed to get a DNA test to prove paternity in April of 2021 (he didnt), and the custody agreement states the mother will have visits at a visitation center. She has not made a visit, or spoken to him since January, 2021. My husband and I are thinking of writing a letter to the judge to have their parental rights stripped, so that in the future, we can adopt him. Neither parent showed up for court at our final custody hearing in April, either. Just wondering if it is considered abandonment if neither parent has tried to see or speak to him in a year now. Also worth mentioning that they have not purchased one thing for him in the last year, and we also do not receive child support, also, the mother does have mental issues. Last question, the mother and grandmother are friends with me on social media, that's the only way they see him, through pictures, the grandmother is volatile toward me, can I delete them or would that be an issue?

My brother passed away and the mother hasn't seen or been with her daughter in years more contact with my neice. my neice is currently living with his gf and my neice wants to live with me and not her mother or his last girlfriend she is 13 how would I go about this?

I have sole physical custody of my 2 year old son. Joint moderate legal custody, I have to discuss with the father on any legal matters but I have the final say. My son was born July 21, 2019, his father has only made an attempt to see him at our first 3 custody court dates the last being November 2019. The last time he has made an attempt to call him was July 21, 2020. Before that only called on Christmas and Easter. I receive $150 a month in child support. However, I have just started my Masters in Architecture and have somebody who is trying to be involved in mine and my sons life and we are trying to move to Texas for work/life. I want to move on with my life without having this hanging over my head and the possibility for him to come back into my life and cause problems. Do I have a fair case for Abandonment and getting his parental rights removed?

My ex moved out of state without telling anyone and has only seen the kids 10 times in the last year. She refuses to buy a car seat for the youngest daughter and hasn't paid support steadily.