Forms/Procedure for a parent to relinquish rights.....?

I wondered how or if there are forms w/o going through an attny to get for my son's biological father to relinquish all his rights. He has wanted to do so for 8 years now! I had a civil protection order on him for 5 yrs, was up in December 07. I don't want to deal w/ him any longer & his constant violent threats. He is a horrible person who was abusive to me & then tried when my son was born & I put a stop to it before he could even lay a hand or do anything else! He threatened to off me & all kinds of things. My son does not remember he was a baby. See, he left me when I was preg. & then sweet talked (I was dumb) & I let him come back for a time after my son was born, then he started up again, then I told him to leave, etc. My fiance is the only dad my son has known & he is good to my son. He will eventually adopt him. I need to get the rights signed over now though. Trouble is brewing from my son's bio dad's side. Thanks & serious answers only please!

P.S. I don't want to make him sign, he wants to sign - I have it on tape (he knew I was taping him and gave me permission to do so on the tape). He wants nothing to do with my son at all. He does not want to pay support & said he would take him and drop him off out of state where I could not find him ever! Now that is another type of threat he made.

since you don't say where you are located you can only get general information.

And that is without you being married and your husband willing to adopt, the court will not approve the Termination request.

EDITED TO ADD:
ANYONE who answered you can get the forms from the courthouse is correct. IF they answered you can get the bio-father to sign them and it will be done is NOT an attorney.

I suggest you be very careful listening to advice of the sort. I am a family law attorney. You decide.

In most areas you can get a form to relinguish rights from the local courthouse or family services office. The biological father would have to willing sign infront of a notary public however.

You should consult a family law lawyer, but in general as long as your fiance is willing to adopt the child at the same time biological father is willing to sign off on the child it should not be a problem

But if you are receiving any state assistance for the child, the state will not release the biological father of his financial responsibility, unless your fiance wants to step up and adopt

Sorry...no such form exist in the U.S...you only hope is to hire a very good attorney and take the matter to Court.

Your Fiancee might be able to adopt him AFTER you are actually married, but that would be the only exception, and even then, you ex would need to relinquish his rights in front of the Judge (you Fiancee needs to understand, which is why they will want him to see a lawyer, that adoption is PERMANENT...not second thought, no backing out, and even if you two would divorce in the future, he is still the DeFacto father and required to pay child support until the child was at least 18.

Forms are at the court house, but the birth dad would have to agree. You cannot make him sign.

You have ground if you have proof of abuse and if he hasnt tried to contact your son. You can file on the basis of child abandonment. A legal notice will be made in the paper so that he can see it or anyone who knows him may see it and inform him. If no response is received in the allotted time. The courts will terminate the rights.