Take the whole footer.php from the parent theme and copy it to your child theme. Your child theme will override the parent footer now. Any changes you make to that footer file in the child theme (ie removing branding) will affect the site.
This is usually better than starting with a whole new footer.php especially if the theme you are using is overly complex.
As for the style.css and functions.php. Sorry you had to go through that mess!
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