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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I don't have anything productive to suggest (other than reporting the grandparents for contempt of a court order), except I thought the above arrangement ("no visitation; no support") was illegal in most every state, because it brokers something that is the kid's right (i.e., parental support payments) in exchange for something that's the non-custodial parent's (i.e., visitation). If it is allowed, it shouldn't be. Termination of parental rights shouldn't be something brokered in exchange for denying the kid the monetary support of his biological parents.
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I'm not exactly sur ehow the deal went down, but I know he hadn't made any of his child support payments in years and had left town to catch the "perfect wave" and she wanted him to give up rights so that her current husband could adopt and he said "OK, and um, can i get out of paying the piles of money I haven't paid" and she said "ok." He went on surfing without a care for years and only had mild interest in his child when he came into town to hit his parents up for money.
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KRUSTY
So he's proactive, huh?
EXECUTIVE
Oh, God, yes. We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
MEYER
Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that.
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