Every family law practitioner has been there. The players are a little different each time but the roles are always the same. Usually it is a young mother complaining about a “dead beat dad” who is hardly in the picture. Sometimes it is a concerned grandparent who has been listening to the parent’s heartache for far too long. Or it is a young father complaining about a mother with a mental health history who has walked out for the last time and left him to care for a young child alone.
In all of these cases you have a parent who is raising a child alone; there is minimal or no contact with the other parent and the contact that does happen is strained. There are mounting support arrearages and no type of partial custody, just a lot of empty promises. The question for the attorney at the initial consultation is always the same, “Can’t I just get rid of him?” Hopefully, the person sitting across from you is talking about termination of parental rights and not something that involves the Crimes Code.
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