adoption

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I know this is the single moms board so I don't know if anyone will have any advice for me or know what would happen in this scenario. 

My sons father has never been in his life, but signed the paternity papers all that fun stuff. child support is on the records even though i think hes paid a total of 50 or less over my sons 4 years. SO my bf wants to adopt him whenever we get married. does anyone know how in the world we'd go about this?

I know when my son was a baby his father wanted to sign over his rights but because of some dumb legal reason or catch or something my lawyer said he couldn't because there was no one to sign the rights too.

Like i said i dont know if anyone will have any advice but anything would help its all kind of confusing to me.