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- I'm Shawna Woods, Managing Partner of the Atlanta Divorce Law Group. What does it take to terminate parental rights? Terminating parental rights is a very strong thing to do. It is not done easily, and it is not done lightly, because it takes away both the rights and the responsibilities for the child. There are four major ways to terminate someone's parental rights. The first one is through an adoption. When someone voluntarily, or the court takes those rights for them, gives up their rights, so that someone else can step in, and act as the parent, accepting both those rights and responsibilities. A second way to terminate parental rights is through the court system. If the court finds through clear and convincing evidence that that parent has abandoned the child either physically or financially for a period of over a year. A third way would be if this parent is convicted of murdering the child's other parent, and fourth, there must be a finding of parental misconduct. All three of