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The adoption process is the act of terminating one parent's rights and obligations and
granting those rights and obligations to another. In order to terminate rights, grounds
must be shown unless you have the written consent of the person who will loose the
rights and obligations. Often a parent will give that consent if the other parent will
agree not to collect past due support. In the absence of consent, abandonment for a
specified period can be grounds for terminating rights in most jurisdictions, but the
abandonment generally means no support payments at all for the period, so if the
parent makes just one payment after the adoption process is started, then there may
not be the required abandonment.
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