Child Custody Library: Voluntary Termination of Parental Rights

Contents:
~ Effect of Parental Rights Termination

~ Due Process Concerns

~ Constraints Under the Children's Code and ASFA

~ General Voluntary Relinquishment Procedure

~ Required Counseling

~ A list of the information that must be sent to your family
court in order to apply for termination of parental rights

~ Execution of the Relinquishment

~ Finality in Court

~ Minor Parents

~ Parents of Indian Children

~ Conditions on Relinquishment

~ Relinquishment Checklist ~~ State by State Relinquishment Terms, Requirements and general information-COVERS EVERY STATE!


The legal effects of termination are substantial. After termination, a natural parent's custodial rights are completely abolished. The order of the court terminating parental rights divests the natural parent of all legal rights, privileges, and obligations with respect to the child. Because this order of the court is so FINAL, extreme care must be taken, as a matter of law, by all of the parties to the relinquishment; the parent or parents, the child, the government agency involved in the case, and the court system overseeing the case.

This is the most-complete volume of information ever offered on the subject of RELINQUISHMENT.