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Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska

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Notice of Objection to Adoption and Intent to Obtain Custody<br />

In order to file with <strong>Nebraska</strong>’s Biological Father Registry, a Notice of Objection to Adoption and<br />

Intent to Obtain Custody form is required. It indicates a father’s intention to seek custody of the<br />

child within thirty (30) days of the filing.<br />

D.E.M. V. P.A.M., 218 Neb. 319, 352 N.W.2d 916 (1984)<br />

[T]he satisfactions and discharges of accrued child support obligations, or the<br />

termination of future responsibility for the same, do not constitute an unwarranted<br />

payment of consideration which will vitiate a child relinquishment (for adoption).<br />

Gomez v. Savage ; 254 Neb. 836, 580 N.W.2d 523 (1998)<br />

(Discusses difference between agency related adoptions and private adoptions, as pertains to<br />

relinquishment of parental rights)<br />

A relinquishment of parental rights, given voluntarily, is not revocable.<br />

The Legislature, as well as this court, has long recognized a distinction between<br />

agency adoptions and private adoptions. In the case of an agency adoption, the<br />

relinquishing parent surrenders all rights to the child in favor of the state or a<br />

licensed child placement agency. Yopp v. Batt, supra. This court has treated an<br />

adoption as an agency adoption when a natural parent<br />

personally chose the adoptive parents with the help of an<br />

agency. See Kellie v. Lutheran Family & Social<br />

Service, 208 Neb. 767, 305 N.W.2d 874 (1981). Under<br />

§43-106.01, the rights of the relinquishing parent are<br />

terminated when the agency accepts responsibility for the<br />

child in writing. It is the agency that finds and investigates<br />

the prospective parents. If the adoptive parents are<br />

unsuitable or decline to go through with the adoption, the<br />

agency retains custody over the child until such time as<br />

the child is adopted by another family.<br />

In private adoptions, by contrast, under §43-111, the relinquishing parent’s rights are<br />

not totally extinguished until the child has been formally adopted by the prospective<br />

parents.<br />

In re Adoption of Corbin J., 278 Neb. 1057, 775 N.W.2d 404 (2009)<br />

Holding: A temporary order for child support does not adjudicate paternity.<br />

[The] consent of the father of a child born out of wedlock who has been adjudicated<br />

to be the father by a court is required for an adoption to proceed unless the<br />

<strong>Nebraska</strong> court having jurisdiction over the custody of the child determines<br />

otherwise pursuant to § 43-104.22. See § 43-104.01(7). An adjudicated father is an<br />

individual determined to be the father by a court of competent jurisdiction.<br />

The only court order entered addressing [the father’s] paternity was a temporary<br />

order in the district court …requiring [the father] to pay child support and to provide<br />

medical insurance and designating visitation. This temporary order was not a<br />

final court-ordered determination that [the biological father] was [the child’s]<br />

father.<br />

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