Yes, unfortunately, there is no statute of limitations on child support arrears in Indiana, so they can go back as far as they want to collect child support. Once the adoption occurs, your obligation for any future child support will end as your Parental Rights will be terminated for adoption and you need to go to court and make sure that the order terminating future support is entered by the court, because if they forget to do so and forget to recall the support withholding order, you will have to spend more money going back to court and trying to get back any money they took from the point of the adoption forward. One way to do this is to contact the mother and inform them you will consent to the adoption and sign a voluntary surrender of rights in consideration of them agreeing to waive any remaining arrears and entering a cease and desist order for any further withholdings from wages.

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You can go to court and file a motion to modify the support and prove that the amount they are collecting is outside of the statutory guidelines based on your income. It would be much cheaper to make a deal with them over waiving the remainder of arrears in exchange for you not objecting to the adoption, which you have every right to do and many times courts will not terminate your rights for the adoption so they would not get what they want. Also, the expense of pursuing the modification will be about $2500 to a family law attorney. However, you absolutely can go to court to dispute the amount and also file a motion for visitation to get leverage over the mother who most likely will not want you to have the visitation you are legally entitled to.