My question involves paternity law for the State of: North Carolina
I recently found out that a girl I was seeing over the summer is now pregnant. She told me about 1.5 months ago and she is currently 17 weeks pregnant. Although she still has a while to go in her pregnancy and could obviously change her mind several times, she is strongly leaning toward adoption right now. I have no problem if that is what she wants to do, but I am not sure if I want to give me child up for adoption. I am exploring the option if keeping it myself, even if she doesn't want to. I want to make sure I've done everything correctly so that if that is what it comes to, I'm prepared. She is meeting with an adoption counselor and doesn't want me there. She said she'd sort of like to keep the baby, but doesn't want the constant responsibility, so I suggested maybe the baby could live with me at first if it was too much for her. She said no, she doesn't want me to have it. So I have a feeling if she does decide on adoption, she will want to place it with someone else and not me. Is there anything I can do at this time as far as establishing my rights (I know I cannot make her do anything while pregnant, and I don't intend to). I just read some other things on another site about how I should be showing proof that I am preparing to support a baby, financially supporting the mother, etc. Or do I just have to wait until the baby is born and petition for a DNA test? If so, is there an estimate about how long that generally takes? Once they establish that I'm the father do I automatically have the right to veto an adoption if I want to keep the baby myself? Sorry for so many questions, but I have absolutely no idea how any of this works and never expected that I would need to know.
I recently found out that a girl I was seeing over the summer is now pregnant. She told me about 1.5 months ago and she is currently 17 weeks pregnant. Although she still has a while to go in her pregnancy and could obviously change her mind several times, she is strongly leaning toward adoption right now. I have no problem if that is what she wants to do, but I am not sure if I want to give me child up for adoption. I am exploring the option if keeping it myself, even if she doesn't want to. I want to make sure I've done everything correctly so that if that is what it comes to, I'm prepared. She is meeting with an adoption counselor and doesn't want me there. She said she'd sort of like to keep the baby, but doesn't want the constant responsibility, so I suggested maybe the baby could live with me at first if it was too much for her. She said no, she doesn't want me to have it. So I have a feeling if she does decide on adoption, she will want to place it with someone else and not me. Is there anything I can do at this time as far as establishing my rights (I know I cannot make her do anything while pregnant, and I don't intend to). I just read some other things on another site about how I should be showing proof that I am preparing to support a baby, financially supporting the mother, etc. Or do I just have to wait until the baby is born and petition for a DNA test? If so, is there an estimate about how long that generally takes? Once they establish that I'm the father do I automatically have the right to veto an adoption if I want to keep the baby myself? Sorry for so many questions, but I have absolutely no idea how any of this works and never expected that I would need to know.
Establishing Paternity: What Are My Rights if Mother Wants Adoption
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