What to do if my husband wants to adopt my 22 month old daughter?

What to do if my husband wants to adopt my 22 month old daughter?

Her father has never been involved in her life besides an occasional meeting. He is in and out of jail and drugs, homeless, no job, has not paid child support amd has personality and control issues. We have done our best to let him be involved but he bails, is high, shows up with hickeys every where, talks bad to me, and to my husband. I want her to have a better life then him. How do my husband and I go about getting hr able to be adopted by him? My daughter has my maiden last name and her fathers.

Asked on January 2, 2013 under Family Law, Oregon

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