Follow up on Support after 10 years signing away parental rights?

The documents I signed and sent to her lawyer my rights to visit as well as all past present and future support! However, she never went through with the adoption and is now saying that she didn't sgree. She never toldl me I still had rights! She just moved to another city and waited til he turned 19. Because of the law in Michigan (where she lives) she was able to get a judgement without any notice to me and if you are more then 10k behind in support there you can be charged with a felony carrying a four year prison term! I have been arrested..extridited and am now awaiting trial. My appointed lawyer says I'm screwed!

In Michigan, you would need to actually go before the judge to terminate your parental rights (if the child is in Michigan at the time). Merely writing a letter, or giving documents to an attorney saying you give up your parental rights, or "signing your rights away" is not enough. Without a judge's consent, nothing happens when it comes to parental rights.

You have the law in Michigan a little wrong. If you are late on even ONE payment, or you pay less than the full amount on even ONE payment, you can be found guilty of a 4 year felony. The ONLY potential way out for you is to try to make a deal with the local friend of the court (and County Prosecuting Attorney), and/or AG's Office (if they are prosecuting it) to pay in full the past due money. The thought there is that if they don't accept that, they aren't going to get any money... especially if you end up doing any time ( a partial high payment "might" get them to reduce it to a 2 year high-court misdemeanor... still "essentially" a felony, as it counts as a felony in the future when determining sentence enhancement if you are convicted of a future crime). In Michigan, the only child support that can even be waived is that owed to the parent individually. If ANY is owed to the state (usually because they covered medical costs), it can never be waived. I hate to say it, but your attorney is right... you're screwed.

Michigan treats Failure to Pay Child Support as a strict-liability crime. There is no defense to it (other than you paid). Not having a job is not a defense. Not knowing (about the specifics of the law) is not a defense. A trial will usually only piss the judge off when it comes to sentencing. Most that plea get probation, and are allowed to be supervised in their home state (assuming that the other state agrees to supervise). Good luck-make some kind of deal-don't take it to trial... honestly... you'll lose.

get a second opinion

id get another lawyer and prepare for countersuit.....however, you should have followed up and made sure to receive certified copies of anything and everything you signed....if you did then youre ahead of the game

I think that your lawyer might be right. I guess you should have paid your child support.

These type of women make me sick. They are a disgrace. It's seems to me that she new exactly what she was doing and she succeeded. Maybe she is the one that needs the 4 yr. prison term.

Your lawyer is probably right..Women like her are one of the many thousands of reasons that men want to give up all rights to there children. And yet they sit there and whine about not getting child support or give a big drama speech about how He wants nothing to do with his children... well I guess not....

First of all these type of women are unfit to be mothers in the first place.
Second of all the systems are all about the women,,, not the children
And last but not least....these women get away with torturing these men only because they know they can and get away
with doing so.

Now with all of this being said.....Yes Your attorney is correct..
Any father in today's society is pretty much that (SCREWED)