Adopting? Help can my partner adopt my dd

[KLou1105]

Not sure if this is the write place to post this. My ex husband left me and our dd after she was born and has had very little contact with her since. My partner has took her on as his own from 7months old. We are now expecting a child together and would like for us all to be a complete family. How easy is for my partner to adopt my dd? I also read a previous post from 2009 claiming that the mother had to also adopt her own child! Which seems ridiculous! Please any info would be greatfully appreciated x

Does your daughters dad agree with this action?

Does your DD's father have PR?

In most cases, your DD's father would need to allow her to be adopted by your partner. I believe this has some impact on things like maintenance.

You'd probably be best to find out if he'd allow it before spending money on solicitors etc, if you know where he is.

If he isn't on the BC then you shouldn't have a problem (don't quote me could be wrong)

I think it's the same as tallylookah. If the father is on the birth certificate then it might be tricky. If he's not you are laughing all the way to the registry office.
Some friends if mine are planning to do this when they get married. They have one child together and he is going I adopt her older daughter. Alternatively you can look into a parental responsibility agreement which I have no idea about except that Helen and rob are considering on the archers!!

Good luck k

Thanks everyone, his name is on the birth certificate and he is fully aware of what we are wanting to do, he has not agreed nor disagreed with allowing my partner to adopt my dd yet. He pays child maintenance atm but if the adoption was to go ahead then obviously we wouldn't expect him to carry on making any payments. I just wanted to see if anyone else had looked into this sort of thing before or had any experience. If my ex husband agrees to adoption and our case was to go to court ect; how likely is thd adoption to be agreed? Is it fairly straight forward? Or are there many other factors which could be against us

You might be better off getting this moved to the legal section.