16 yr old requesting step father adoption. Currently suspended visitation order from Texas with joint custody non-custodial biological father. No contact with joint custody non-custodial parent in 2 years. No child support being paid, no order for child support either. Parent petition for joint custody 3 years ago and only wanted custody of the half-sibling and stopped communicating with 16 yr and split the siblings. Half-sibling graduated and has gone to basic training. 16 yr old afraid non-custodial parent will try to reverse suspended visitation orders and make 16 yr old visit him 2000 miles away in another state.

Do I have to contact the other parent if I have had no contact with the parent in over a year and the child has not had any contact with the parent in 2 years for the step parent adoption? I don't want any money, step parent and I have been supporting the 16 yr old including medical/dental without help for 2 years, Step parent has provided for 16 yr old for a total of 8 years. Can the 16 yr old decide whether they want to go on visitation if they have had no contact with parent?

How do I register a foreign decree, modify parent-child relationship and child visitation suspension order from another state? If I do that will they make the other parent pay child support even if I don't want it?