Paternity Legal Questions and Answers
If my wife has her baby before we divorce am I financially obligated to this child that is not mine?
My wife had an affair while I was deployed and is now pregnant by this guy. We are going to get a divorce, but due to her spending all the money while I was gone, I can't afford to hire a lawyer. If she has the baby before we are divorced, am I responsible for this child?
03/04/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Georgia | #15440What is needed to show that I have sole custody if I never married my child's father?
My daughter has always lived with me since birth. How do I obtain something concrete-in black and white-that decrees me as sole guardian of her? I never married her father.
02/21/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Maine | #15321How do I have the current order of child support increased?
MY 14 YEARS OLD SON'S FATHER RESIDES IN NEW YORK STATE. HE CONTINUES TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT MY SON, HOWEVER MINIMALLY. MY SON'S FATHER OWNS AND OPERATES HIS OWN BUSSINESS AND OFTEN COMMUNICATES HIS OUTSTANDING PROFITS WITH ME. RECENTLY I ASKED HIM TO IMPROVE THE FINANCIAL ALLOWANCE HE GIVES FOR HIS SON AND HE REFUSES. WHAT CAN I DO TO HAVE THE CURRENT SUPPORT REVIEWED AND POSS...
02/13/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Virginia | #15238Do I still have to pay child support if I terminate my parental rights?
I got a girl pregnant, not a girlfriend, and she is asking me to sign over rights. Do I still pay child support/ hospital bills?
02/09/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Nevada | #15210What can I do to establish paternity of my wife's child that may not be mine?
I married a woman that illegally came into the United States. She is still married in Brazil. She is now pregnant and I'm not sure it's my child. What should i do?
02/06/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Connecticut | #15184What can someone do if they have been sued for child support after 17 years?
Could the Governor help with the laws for a mother that kept the child a secret until the child was 15 and now has taken the father back for child support and won. Now the father and his family are suffering from this lady all of a sudden wanting money. We can hardly get groceries. We already established a lifestyle. The kid will be 17. We started paying September 2007 and ...
02/03/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Delaware | #15134Can the married man I had an affair with take me to court for a paternity test?
I am pregnant and I am afraid of the father of my child, but on the basis of emotional abuse. I want nothing to do with him. More importantly, I feel it is in the child's best interest that he have nothing to do with us. I want nothing from this man. This is a married man with whom I had sex once. He is obsessed with me. He will not leave me alone. He wants to be acknowledged a...
01/30/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: New Jersey | #15105Should I go through the court for joint custody and visitation of my child?
I am a parent that is not married to my child's mother that wants joint custody and appointed visitation of child. Trying to find out what is the appropriate form to use.
01/22/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Louisiana | #15043What can I do if I am being sued for back child support and they child might not be mine?
A woman is suing me for back child support. The child has another man's name on the birth certificate. What should I do? This child is almost 17 years old. I never met the child. The night of supposed conception, was 19 years ago.
01/17/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Mississippi | #15017Is there a form that could dismiss me from any legal financial responsibility if I am the father?
I might be the father of a child, but the mother doesn't want to get a DNA test and her husband is the legal father. Is there a form that could dismiss me from any legal financial responsibility? I am not involved in their life at all. I just want to cover my self for the future.
01/17/2009 | Category: Paternity | State: Hawaii | #15014