Epic win for a three year old little boy who narrowly misses being lost to adoption!

[pnwmom]

37. Have you read if he signed up on Missouri's "Putative Father Registry," since he knew about

the pregnancy? He should have done it in March, when the adoption agency called him (if not as soon as the GF told him about the pregnancy.) It would have given the adoptive parents and their lawyer official notice of his interest in the child.

http://www.adoptionattorneys.org/refinery/cache/pages/aaaa-page/birth-parents/putative-father-registry.html

Who is a Putative Father?
A putative father is generally a man whose legal relationship to a child has not been established, but claims to be the father or who is alleged to be the father to a child who is born to a woman to whom he is not married at the time of the child’s birth.

What is a Putative Father Registry?
Every state has a provision for fathers to voluntarily acknowledge paternity or the possibility of paternity of a child born outside of a marriage. The Federal Social Security Act requires States to have in place procedures for mothers and putative fathers to acknowledge paternity of a child, including a hospital-based program for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity that focuses on the period immediately before or after the birth of the child. The procedures must include that, before they can sign an affidavit of paternity, the mother and putative father will be given notice of the alternatives and legal consequences that arise from signing the acknowledgment. See 42 U.S.C. § 666(a)(5) (2010).

At least 24 States have established paternity registries where putative fathers can indicate their intention to claim paterity including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illiinois, Indiana, Iowa, Lousiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming. In 11 States, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands, there are forms that are filed with social services departments, registrars of vital statistics, or similar offices, which provide for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity. These states are Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin