content: Actually, this case is so egregious that the mother would have been assessed child support if the father had asked for it. Instead, he asked her to sign a TPR, so that she could never come back and try to get custody or visitation. There is a double standard at work in that, however... I work family law in an adjoining state, and SC is notorious for NEVER allowing biological fathers to sign away their rights unless there is an adoptive father waiting in the wings to assume financial responsibility for the child. You can be a cripple, a drug addict, in prison for 50 years, whatever... you are still going to be the legal father and (fail to) pay child support. Apparently, the same standard does not apply to biological mothers.