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Originally posted by sphinxpoet
Increasingly there has been several issues of baby's fathers and single mothers! In one case I saw last week a man raised a child who he thought was his daugther of 12 years. Him and his ex were not together legally but he paid child support for 12 years and he had married someone else.
Then when she turned 12 she sued to have an increase in child support. Upon this the man requested a blood test to see if the daughter was really his. It turned out he was not the daddy!
He sued the mother for all back child support and requested that the court reject her request for more child support. He Lost! The court said since he was the only daddy the young girl knew he was still responsible even if it was not his. Now he still has to pay monthly child support
All the women I came across said what happened to him was jacked up but he still needs to pay child support!
How do my people in here feel about that? Are the courts right or wrong? When should you if ever trust someone who is claiming to carry your child? Or should we all just get blood tests from jump? Does that mean a stepfather that divorces his wife still is responsible to the stepchild financially? Let me know! I will express my opinion later.
Sphinxpoet
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Last year either on Dateline or 20/20 or one of those news shows, they discussed the same topic. However, some of the emphasis was on married men, who while going through a divorce, and having to discuss the topic of child support discovered that the children were not biologically theirs through DNA testing. After finding out that they were not the biological fathers, they decided that they should not have to pay any child support. The courts rejected the fathers' wishes stating that "in a marriage, if any children are produced, it is almost automatically assumed that the husband is the father". To this day, courts still stick by that notion. Any opinions on the married men who go through this ordeal???