wondering1
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What is termination of parental rights?
A termination of parental rights is a court order that severs the rights, powers, privileges, immunities, duties, and obligations between a parent and child. A termination of parental rights may be voluntary or involuntary.
It is rights of custody ( if its true) that she gave up. She can later file to have rights again. If she files TPR ( which she did not as that can NOT be done out of the court. She would HAVE to show up in court) then she'll have no right to go back later and file for custody.
TPR is normally dont with adoptions or when the children are in foster care. That is not the case here.
This is not TPR. I've seen a crackhead prostitute living with their six children out of a shopping cart in a subway station not have ALL of her parental rights terminated. Every case is different, but that only happens in VERY extreme cases, ime, and only after many, many, many attempts to avoid it.
It's not what KH requested, either. Plus, TPR on a bio parent would impact support issues. Some bio parents request it to get out of their support obligations, and that is rarely allowed. The only examples I can think of that happening is when a bio parent voluntary gives up parental rights so that the child can legally be adopted by the new spouse of the other bio parent. In that case, I would imagine it's permitted as in the child's best interests. jmoo