Should The Man Have To Pay?

[Doc Tinker]

After several years of paying child support, a man decided to do a DNA test to see if he really was the child's father. The DNA test proved that he was not the father. Should the man still be required to pay child support and to continue visitation?



Doc

 

[NVR FNSH]

If he's acted as the child's dad - not just the sperm donor - then he should continue to support his child. What's the difference between this and adoption? If he originally denied he was the father and he was forced by the court to pay child support in the first place then I say he shouldn't be required to.



Brian

 

[EMDDIESEL]

He should continue to pay and the slimebag who IS the father and has not paid, should pay the guy who was back money. Seems fair?

 

[Doc Tinker]

On a flip side. . Once it is known that the guy is not the father, should the mother be allowed to exclude him from the child's life if he wanted to continue to be a father to him/her?



Doc

 

[sdalton]

Let him have the child, and make her pay him, since he seems to be th only responcible one around. Then make the guy who knocked his wife up pay child support also. Then put a sign on the adulterer backs saying what they did, and march them through town for several hours a day for a month. Then flog them in public with switches. Oh, and I forgot, tattoo a big Scarlet A on their forheads.

That should just about do it.

 

[NVR FNSH]

Originally posted by Doc Tinker

On a flip side. . Once it is known that the guy is not the father, should the mother be allowed to exclude him from the child's life if he wanted to continue to be a father to him/her?



Doc

If the non-biological father has been the childs 'dad' & taken an active part of the child's life then the child's well being takes precedence and the 'dad' should continue to be involved. Even if it means the courts forcing the mother to let it happen.



Brian

 

[Pit Bull]

Would need more information. How long has he been the father figure? etc. But I do like SDaltons solution

 

[E7mack96]

I resemble this topic

this situation is occuring to me. I am being forced to pay C. S. for a child, my first wife had, before I met her. The real dad was never around. I have been. For the record, Out of the seven years we were married, she was gone living with other guys about half of the time. The courts don't care that I never get to see him, They even determined(without a test) that I AM the biological father and the judge put it in the divorce decree that way.



I am in no way the child biological father. I have been the only dad he has known. When I tried to get Custody, they said I can't have him, But my money is good enough for them. My x has no business with custody of children, she is trailer trash, that hoes around and doesn't even make sure they get to school.