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This can take 60-90 days. If you receive public assistance, you must serve the Child Support Office at least 45 days before the hearing.
An application could be made to the family court for a prohibited steps order. In this situation you would need to convince the court that it is in your child's best interest not to meet their father's partner and how any contact with the father's partner can impact your child.
Parental responsibility can only be terminated by the court. This usually only happens if a child is adopted or the father's behaviour warrants the removal of parental responsibility.
Termination of parental rights ends the legal parent-child relationship. Once the relationship has been terminated, the child is legally free to be placed for adoption with the objective of securing a more stable, permanent family environment that can meet the child's long- term parenting needs.
While a parent can choose to ?relinquish? parental rights, a parent cannot voluntarily ?terminate his parental rights and obligations,? unless a court deems it to be in the child's best interests.
(c) As of the time the petition is filed, the parent has failed to maintain significant contact with the child by visiting him or communicating with him for any period of six consecutive months.
The only way to remove parental responsibility is through an application to the court and these applications are only successful in exceptional circumstances.
If a parent or parents of a child leave the child in the care and custody of another without provision for the child's support and without communication for a period of 6 months, or if the child is left under such circumstances that the identity of the parents is unknown and cannot be ascertained despite diligent