Paternity Legal Questions and Answers
Does a Father Have to Pay Past Child Support in Tennessee Paternity Suit?
My husband was married 14 years ago to another woman. This other woman became pregnant, claimed the child belonged to another man and then married the other ma beofre the baby was born. Now, after 14 years, she is claiming the child is actually my husband's. We live in Tennessee. Is it possible for her to be awarded back child support as well as future child support for this...
07/13/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Tennessee | #17522How Does an Unmarried Father Relinquish Custody of an Unborn Child?
My unmarried daughter is pregnant and has secured the oral agreement of the biological father to give up custody. In return, she will assume full support of the child and not seek child support from the biological father. She will not be seeking any public assistance. How do they commemorate this agreement in writing (eg. is their a Waiver of Custody rights form in USLEGALFO...
07/03/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Pennsylvania | #17320How can a mother keep a paternal father's name off of the birth certificate?
Once paternity is legally established through DNA testing, can the mother keep the paternal fathers name off the birth certificate? The father is known and does not disagree that he is the birth father.
06/08/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Kansas | #16899Paternity proceeding; putative father seeks information
I received a call form a friend who informed me that I had just became a father. This came as a shock to me because this was the first I had ever heard of any such matter. I called the women to find out if these allegations where true. She was just getting out of the hospital and told me that the baby she had was my daughter but did not put me on the birth certificate. Al...
05/09/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Minnesota | #16619Am I obligated to tell my attorney that a paternity test revealed I am not the real father?
Unwed father and mother have a child. Father's name on the birth certificate. Raises child as own for 4.5 years. Files for custody. Mother tells judge he is the father, then tells father to get paternity test. Non-legal PT done. Not father. Father wants to raise child, due to neglectful mother. Judge gives tempory custody to father. Is father obligated to tell lawyer about the...
05/08/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: New Mexico | #16613How would someone establish paternity on a child they can not locate?
Someone came up to a friend of mine & told him that the child she had 12 years prior was his. She dumped this info on him and took off. She is currently in legal trouble for forgery, theft, conning people for money and my friend is unable to find where she lives and the child is apparently in the custody of the grandparents. What are his rights and how does he initiate conversa...
05/05/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Pennsylvania | #16569Can I force the assumed father to take a paternity test?
My daughter is 8 years old and her father and I established paternity in 2001 by voluntary means (we were never married and he never requested a paternity test). At the current time, we have joint custody and he is trying to get full custody of her. However, I have a 6 month old son who only recently came to my knowledge that his father could very likely be my daughters father...
05/04/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Arizona | #16567What can my son do if he might be the father and does not want the mother to have an abortion?
My son was told that a girl he met and had a one night stand with is now pregnant. She is 18 years old. Her mother expects my son to pay 100% of the cost for the abortion. He does not want the child to be aborted. He also has been unemployed for 7 months. There is no way to confirm that this pregnancy involves my son.
04/29/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Michigan | #16471What are my rights to make the soon to be father acknowledge paternity
My ex boyfriend had manipulated me into having sex with him few times in the past month. He asked me to help him on his homework at his house, then had forced me to had sex with him. I was traumatized after the break up because I am still emotionally attached to him. He takes advantage of me and used me for homework and sex. I tested positive for pregnancy. I should be around...
04/29/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: ALL | #16430if my husband relinquishes his rights will he still be obligated to pay child support?
My husband fathered a baby outside our marriage. The mother of the child is asking for him to sign over paternity. Paternity has never been established If he does this will he still pay child support?
04/28/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: ALL | #16339