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When I give up parental rights do you have to pay child support in the state of Maryland?
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∙ 10y ago
It may help to understand the point of view of the law.
You have a child. You are responsible to care for and provide for that child until it becomes an adult. Almost nothing else matters. It doesn't matter if the child doesn't live with you, it doesn't matter if you don't get to see the child, it doesn't matter if the child hates you and wishes you were dead, it doesn't matter if the child doesn't know you from Adam's off ox. That's what child support is for, to provide for the child. If you didn't want this responsibility, the court will reason, you shouldn't have been doing the sorts of things that might result in you having a child in the first place... it's not like we have no idea what causes that.
If the child is provided for sufficiently without you paying child support, then the court has discretion in the matter. However, just "giving up your parental rights" doesn't absolve you from the requirement to make any existing or future child support payments that may be mandated by a court.
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If you give away parental rights do you have to pay child support?
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