Update: Missouri father wins six year custody battle
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Paternity on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. More than a year ago we posted on one Missouri father’s ongoing battle to get custody of his son. The claim was that his girlfriend had been suffering from postpartum depression when she signed away parental rights of the couple’s 3-month-old baby without first consulting the father. Since he did not sign the birth certificate at the time of his son’s birth, he was left with no legal rights to stop the adoption process. However, now seven years after the start of the custody battle, which went all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court,