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Can older adults "un-adopt" themselves?
I met up with two people over the last 20 years who were legally adopted. One has taken on his birthname ( as well as his entire family) at age 45 , and the other is threatening me, that she and her siblings were around my deceased step-father first. Both are fully legally adopted and had so much more than I had growing up. I naturally withdrew my family tree from ancestry.com. They will not leave me alone and do not want to help me.
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- 2 years ago
You cannot rescind an adoption as an adult. There is nothing to rescind. The legal obligations of parents usually ends at 18. After that they are under no legal obligation to provide for the child. Does not matter whether the child was adopted or not.
Taking your birth name is irrelevant, that is a name change that anyone can do. You can call yourself turnip but that does not turn you into a vegetable.
Not sure what kinds of threat you are receiving. If this is connected to an inheritance, an adopted child is not an heir and has zero rights to any legacy from his birth family. By the way, a stepchild has no inheritance rights either. In both cases you are not a relative and would only inherit if you were specifically mentioned in the will.
However, I would encourage you to be welcoming. Adoption is incredibly traumatic and any contact with the birth family can repair their damage. Be nice to these people, it costs nothing to be nice.
