willful abandonment, however, is a question of law. In re Adoption of AM.H., 215 S.W.3d 793, 810 (Tenn.2007). We review questions of law de novo with no presumption of correctness. In re Adoption of A.M.H., 215 S.W.3d at 810. We begin our analysis with the ground of abandonment based on willful failure to support. Willful failure to support or to make reasonable payments toward support means “the willful failure, for a period of four (4) consecutive months, to provide monetary support or the willful failure to provide more than token payments toward the support of the child.” Tenn.Code Ann. § 36-l-102(l)(D). A parent cannot be said to have abandoned a child when his failure to visit or support is due to circumstances outside his control. See In re Adoption of A.M.H., 215 S.W.3d at 810 (<HOLDING>). A parent may not attempt to rectify
holding that parents may not voluntarily terminate their rights in a child to avoid child support payments or contract away a child support obligation holding the foster parents responsible for support where the childs natural parents are unknown and noting that an earlier new york case held that an agreement to adopt did not terminate the natural parents duty of support but that in that earlier case the natural parent was alive and capable of providing for the child holding that custodial parents death does not terminate noncustodial parents child support obligations set forth in dissolution decree recognizing that at common law a parents liability to support his child terminated at the parents death the terms of the support order could not be enforced against his estate unless provisions allowing for such enforcement were included in the order holding that the evidence did not support a finding that the parents intentionally abandoned their child