He has to adopt her separately

A child from previous marriage does not become the child of the new spouse automatically. The new spouse has to officially adopt the child.

Without adoption, when the new spouse dies, the child is not in the inheritance chain of the new spouse. This is critical when if both parents died at the same time (and without any other child), only part of the parent's property goes to the child, while the new spouse's portion of the property goes to his relatives.

The child's biological father would be always on hook for child support.

Most people argue about this is reinventing the wheel. This issue has been resolved in law several hundred years ago. Family law applies to kings, lords, capitalists, and poor peasants, have some respect before you criticize it.

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• 在英国，如果你和带孩子的单亲母亲同居了，你必须保证那个孩子的wellbeing -lookatme..- ♀ (117 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 11:00:45

• 等于没说 -柠檬椰子汁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 11:59:56

• 难道和亲生母亲结婚，还没有父亲的资格么？这是美国 -慧惠- ♀ (411 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 12:01:31

• 你没看懂，打回去重看。：） -水中捞月- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 12:22:28

• 哪里没看懂？ -慧惠- ♀ (321 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 12:32:37

• 你混淆了一般的custody right和正式的adoption的区别，看这里： -水中捞月- ♂ (143 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 12:36:57

• 你只有正式adopt 继子， 才彻底没有生父（母）什么事，在英国是这样的： -水中捞月- ♂ (632 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 13:00:06

• Adoption是正式程序，一般都是accept,中文称既成事实 -lookatme..- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 13:10:43

• 不要再讨论下去了，秀才遇到兵，俺逃了。：） -水中捞月- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 13:15:58

• 搞得我也懒得深究下去 -慧惠- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 13:36:41

• 你是没有把法律上的监护权和法律上的父亲区分开来， -水中捞月- ♂ (523 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 14:19:09

• 我没区分开，是根据这个案子的缘由，我不明白，是因为不懂为什么争议这么大 -慧惠- ♀ (716 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 14:59:35

• 俺只负责解释你上面提到的legal custody的疑问，其它的看柠檬大侠是否在方便的时候予以解答。 -水中捞月- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 15:29:12

• 就是他的回答莫名其妙，我才有了这些提问。人家没要遗产和赡养费，adopt还是不adopt有什么关系 -慧惠- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 16:10:37

• 谢谢捞月，所以这个富翁有对前面那个女孩，不是他亲生的抚养义务，特别是他经济情况好转的情况下 -lookatme..- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 12:25:15

• 你弄混淆了吧，俺没有说支持你的观点啊。如果他对那女孩有正式的adoption, 则是另外一回事。 -水中捞月- ♂ (171 bytes) () 03/12/2015 postreply 12:32:39