09-04-2021, 12:30 PM
(09-03-2021, 08:19 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: So did he LITERALLY adopt them? I would think that requires the mother giving them up to happen. People often use the word to mean they have put a vested interest in caring and assisting children without doing the literal legal part.
The mother does not have to give them up for him to become an adoptive father. It is a legal way for him to be able to care for them when they are with him, ie, signing consent for treatment, schools, etc. Now if the father was still alive, that would be different.
