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It's called incentive to keep your pants on or use 10 different kinds of protection.
But it's bad for husbands who are intending to parent. If any time later the woman says "psych you aren't the father" you lose all parental rights and don't get and back money spent on the kid. And the. She can sue the bio dad for all the back years of child support when her husband was supporting the child and he will have to pay.
Tom Leykis has talked a lot about the State of Washington where if you live with a chick and her son for a certain amount of time or marry and then divorce her then you can be on the hook for child support. Insane laws!
But it's bad for husbands who are intending to parent. If any time later the woman says "psych you aren't the father" you lose all parental rights and don't get and back money spent on the kid. And the. She can sue the bio dad for all the back years of child support when her husband was supporting the child and he will have to pay.
Simple solution...get a paternity test at birth. Problem solved!
This is crazy! Somebody needs to change the law. For him to have to pay $65,000 because the dumb woman can't remember who she slept with??
He caused much of this himself! He was served court documents and ignored them years ago. There was a garnishment from his paycheck for child support because he didn't show up in court. He probably changed jobs and the garnishment stopped because he didn't notify the courts he had a new job. This has been sitting in legal limbo for years. He could have 100% prevented this entire mess by showing up to court and having a paternity test done. He didn't both so he's on the hook. Here's a tip....don't EVER ignore a court summons! It will ALWAYS bite you in the behind later.
I strongly suspect that there is information missing in this story.
In Texas, this is how this works. A child is born to an unwed mother, and she can choose to name a dad on the birth certificate or decline to name the dad. If she names the father, and then goes on to apply for welfare benefits, the state comes after the Dad for child support. If she hasn't named him on the birth certificate, but applies for welfare, she has that chance to name him at that time. He will get served with a summons to appear for DNA testing. If he either actively refuses to do that, or he makes himself impossible to find or ignores the summons, he can be "defaulted" as the father. (Or, as I've heard a lawyer say in court, then "default his ass"). That is, a man who refuses to DNA test and refuses court requests can legally be declared the father on the word of the mother. So you don't get baby daddies just running from the paternity test.
And then child support payments begin to accrue.
My guess is, he'll be forgiven this debt so all this whining about being forced to pay for a child that isn't his is really disingenuous. It's not going to happen.
But it is a cautionary tale, about men who ignore that the courts are asking for proof of paternity from them.
Interestingly, the way the article is written, he didn't at first know he wasn't the father of the child. It took the DNA test to reassure him of that. So he COULD have been the father of the child, and the mother may well have believed he was. It's not like they hadn't had sex, which is what the article seems to be trying to imply.
I'm sure laws vary in different states, but to my knowledge in CT it's a little different. First if the couple is married the father is assumed to be the child's natural father. If the couple is unmarried a DNA test is ordered. If the test comes back negative I don't know what happens.
I would assume a lot of these cases of "I'm not the baby's daddy" are actually cases in which the couple was previously married.
Kirk Kevorkian (billionaire) is paying child support on a kid later to find out it isn't even his!
Ex-wife wanted to increase it to 320K a month!
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