How do I sign my child custody rights away? 17 Answers as of October 28, 2011

You can give custody to anyone by agreeing to it in Family Court with whoever wants to care for your child. You may not want to care for your child physically or emotionally, but you cannot be relieved of your financial obligations to support a child that you brought into this world. You are required to financially support this child until he or she is at least 21 years old.

I assume that when you say "sign my rights away" you mean that you want to relinquish parental rights. You have to file such an action with the court. The court will decide based on the facts.

Your child is entitled to two parents and to support from both parents. A parent can't "divorce" his/her child and absolve himself/herself of financial responsibility to support his/her child. If you choose not to participate in parenting your child, your child support will be maximized, since child support is based on each parent's income andpercentage of custodial timeshare. If the other party gets married and his/her spouse wants toadopt your child, if you give your consent to the Social Worker to terminate your parental rights, the adoption, when completed, will cut off your parental rights and obligations.

Every father has the duty to support his children. By paying child support.

There is no such thing as "signing away rights" unless someone else wishes to adopt your child. When you choose to unzip your pants you are liable for 18 years of support. Your need some mental health counseling to find out why you are so irresponsible. I'd also suggest a vasectomy before you try to stick the taxpayers with more of your offspring. But to answer your question, you have an 18 year responsibility and you can expect to land in jail if you fail to meet it.

You cannot sign away your rights, and thus not be responsible for support and medical expenses, unless the mother remarries and her new husband adopts the child.

Your spouse should ask the court to change custody and you cooperate. This is how you get an order changing your custody rights. Yes, you will still have to pay child support - possibly more than before because now your spouse has the child for a longer time and spends additional funds for child maintenance. The only way to avoid that is to have your parental rights terminated.

Unless and until another man takes over your parental rights by adoption, you can give up custody but still be on the hook for support.

Absent adoption child support will remain an obligation.

You can't. Even if you could, you would still of the obligation to pay child support.