Man owes child support, child not his

Drolefille · #1 07-12-2007, 05:26 PM

It's not that unusual for judges to enforce child support, usually the welfare of the child is cited as a reason. It's not fair to the fathers at all, but there's unequal treatment in family court for mothers and fathers.

Kevin · #2 07-12-2007, 05:42 PM

It sounds as if we're getting this report in the middle of the case.

UGAalum94 · #3 07-12-2007, 05:55 PM

Maybe we're at the point as a society at which part of the child support legal paperwork should require a DNA test.

I don't think men should be required to pay child support for a child who isn't theirs, and in cases where the mother knows the kid isn't his, I think she should have to pay it back and face fraud charges.

(You'd think any women would have the decency figure out definitively who the father is, but I suspect in some cases, she really does think that man paying is the father.)

I do think there's a little danger in courts not assuming that the husband is the father of a wife's baby*, but when there is no marriage or there's a divorce with support ordered, it's worth doing a test.

*You could get into some weird stuff with estates. Would every heir need to prove that he or she was biologically the offspring of a deceased man to receive an inheritance? You'd also have to use a different standard, obviously, for adopted children. The man shouldn't be allowed to shift the financial burden on to the mom if he elected to adopt the kid despite neither of them being biologically related.

Rudey · #4 07-12-2007, 07:13 PM

Personally, I'd shoot the judge if I was him. And then ask the court to make another man spend time in jail instead of me.

-Rudey

SWTXBelle · #5 07-12-2007, 09:43 PM

It doesn't matter - trust me when I say that just because you are ordered to pay child support doesn't mean you will. And when deadbeat dad doesn't? You can pay a lawyer to take him to court - and get a very expensive piece of paper which says he owes it. YIPPEE.
NOT THAT I'M BITTER.

Rudey · #6 07-12-2007, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

It doesn't matter - trust me when I say that just because you are ordered to pay child support doesn't mean you will. And when deadbeat dad doesn't? You can pay a lawyer to take him to court - and get a very expensive piece of paper which says he owes it. YIPPEE.
NOT THAT I'M BITTER.

I thought they arrested them these days?

-Rudey

SWTXBelle · #7 07-12-2007, 09:55 PM

You have to go through so many hoops - my ex is currently in contempt of at least 5 orders, owes me thousands - but it doesn't become a felony in Texas until they hit $10,000. It is - to say the least - frustrating.

OneTimeSBX · #8 07-13-2007, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Rudey

Personally, I'd shoot the judge if I was him. And then ask the court to make another man spend time in jail instead of me.

-Rudey

lmao! i agree!

and i def do agree charges should be brought up if it can be proven the wife/girlfriend cheated, and hid the fact that she was unsure of the paternity. it is not right to trap a man/lie to the courts and make him pay his hard earned money if she was being a scandalous ho. in his case, even she said it wasnt his. can't quite figure out the judges decision behind that...

i feel it should be left up to the father if its not your child, but you ever see those dads on Maury, that dont care whose child it is, they will raise it anyway? if it isnt his child legally or biologically, allow the man to decide whether to step up and help out or not. of course, there wont be a lot who will, cant say that id blame them...

honeychile · #9 07-13-2007, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

Maybe we're at the point as a society at which part of the child support legal paperwork should require a DNA test.

Sadly, I think you're right. Of course, it will absolutely kill the Montel circuit.

AlphaFrog · #10 07-13-2007, 01:50 PM

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Of course, it will absolutely kill the Montel circuit.

I'm not crying over that...anyone else?

OneTimeSBX · #11 07-13-2007, 02:32 PM

oh gosh you are right! there are only so many transvestite and lie detector shows Maury can put on, a majority of them are "im 1000% sure that he is the father. well, except for that train his friends ran on me that weekend...but yeah, im 1000% sure!"

AlphaFrog · #12 07-13-2007, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

oh gosh you are right! there are only so many transvestite and lie detector shows Maury can put on, a majority of them are "im 1000% sure that he is the father. well, except for that train his friends ran on me that weekend...but yeah, im 1000% sure!"

I remember one episode, the chick HAD BEEN ON MAURY BEFORE claiming to know who the father was, and of course was wrong. So, SHE CAME BACK, and of course this time she was 900% sure that this other guy was the father...and, he was not. Damn.