Is it true that you cant terminate a parents rights unless you remarry and new spouse adopts your kids?

I live in TN and my fiance has 3 kids whose mother has not seen or talked to her kids since 2002 and she has not paid any child support. The state can not find her and he was told the only way for him to terminate her rights was for us to get married and me to adopt them. I thought he could get her for abandonment .Is it true that you cant terminate a parents rights unless you remarry and new spouse adopts your kids?
In Ohio, at least, they will not terminate parental rights unless someone else is there and willing to take on that obligation. They will only terminate if someone is willing to adopt the child.





Abandonment would be the reason the court would use for the termination so that the adoption can take place.Is it true that you cant terminate a parents rights unless you remarry and new spouse adopts your kids?
the only way to terminate a parents right is for them to agree to it in court
Unless the mother is dead, no one can terminate her parental rights except HER. Being married doesn't have anything to do with it.





If she doesnt' come around or get in contact with anyone at all for a period of 7 years, your fiance can apply to the courts to have her legally declared dead...providing her family goes along with it.





Then, he can have the mothers parental rights legally removed.....





Until then, there is nothing he can do...only the mother can do it.





Abandoning a child doesn't mean that the parental rights can be terminated.





Have him talk to a lawyer.