Not The Father? You Still Owe Child Support, Says Georgia Law

[Kraig]

Article today also said 40% of women are raising children as single mothers, up
25% since 2002.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/story?id=7575268&page=1

That's what happens when the government invests other people's money.

 

[BeFranklin]

That's what happens when the government invests other people's money.

Its a moral problem, but it doesn't help that the court law is helping the immorality because common sense has been thrown out the door.

This is also like the stories that some woman is comitting adultery with another man, and when you get a divorce, your support payments then go to feed him. Really sick stuff.

 

[Kraig]

Its a moral problem, but it doesn't help that the court law is helping the immorality because common sense has been thrown out the door.

This is also like the stories that some woman is comitting adultery with another man, and when you get a divorce, your support payments then go to feed him. Really sick stuff.

Yeah there is no accountability on how they spend the money. If I got divorced and had kids I wouldn't at all mind *giving* her money to help raise the kids. However if I did this for awhile and I saw that she was blowing it on herself for stupid crap I sure as hell would stop. That isn't an option with child support.

 

[puppetmaster]

OK she must be a bitch to ask for continued support after she found out he was not the father

Yeah I've just spent too much time around guys complaining about child support lol.

 

[devil21]

This is nowhere near a new policy or law. It's been like this for many years. The law basically states that if you act as the father (mainly support) prior to learning the paternity of the child, you are still liable for support even if you are not the father. The mother and child has become "accustomed" to a standard of living and relying on your money month after month. Pulling it away suddenly (even if the mother flat out lied on the BC) isn't an option.

The really sad part is that if they were to allow support to be stopped then the mothers would just go and collect gov't benefits where we ALL are paying for it. Can't win.

 

[sharpinla]

It seems like you are somehow placing the blame on this guy. He is the victim. He was defrauded for 10 1/2 years and now the state wants to force him to continue with an obligation that is not his. He can't even pay his own bills, why should he be forced to pay for someone elses' lack of responsibility? If anything they should track down the real father of the child.

Very true AND it's not the child's fault at all...sadly.

HOWEVER, he is just as much to blame as the woman. He should have taken birth control measures into his own hands if he didn't want to risk being slammed with child support.

The same thing happened to my brother. There were no less than five men this whore slept with and she provided all the names to the state welfare. They tried to nail it on each one and those who were found took DNA tests which freed them. My brother was out of state and untraceable and he was the sucker who got caught because he couldn't respond to the correspondence because they couldn't find him. By default, they declared him the father.

Of course, he's an idiot anyway and has five or six kids besides this one.

Irresponsible men are just as much to blame for the mess we're in as women who trick/trap men.

 

[idiom]

"They say 25 to 30 percent of all men who get tested find out that they're not the father," said family lawyer Randy Kessler. "That's a high number. Married, non-married, divorced ... that's going on a lot."

Cuckold FTW!

 

[Rael]

He should have questioned it 10 years ago. Now for all intents and purposes he is the kids father. I don't think he should have to send the money to the kid via the mother, but he should be responsible for helping raise and take care of the kid.

 

[Roxi]

Why to make him pay too? He probably has no idea he even has a kid. It's not his fault the mother didn't tell him in favor of lying to someone else. The mother should be stuck with the kid or she should put him up for adoption. Her actions and her actions alone caused this, she shouldn't have been sleeping around, yet she is the one getting a cut of someone's paycheck. Completely absurd.

well also because its important to know who the real father is if only for medical reasons.




i think the law sucks... and i actually know a guy who still has to pay child support on a kid that turned out to not be his... however because he acted as the childs father for 6 years, and the child thought the guy was his dad, and because the real father was not known, he chose to not fight the child support and continues to still see the kid as if nothing had changed..

my question is, is the guy in the OP now denying the child as well? is he wanting to still act as the childs father and get visitation rights for a kid hes been the "father" of for 10 years? or is he saying "oh Im not your dad.... goodbye"

im not sure that will matter at all, but I would think that it would be kind of asshole-ish for him to just drop the kid out of his life after 10 years, I mean the kid is the one who really suffers here right? she not only finds out the guy she thought was her dad really isn't, but that she now doesn't have a dad at all.... thats crap and could damage the kid forever.

so ya, life sucks sometimes and the kids not his, but I think some sort of agreement could be made in order to avoid the child being hurt.

JMO

 

[klamath]

I think someone else hit it on the head. If you accept that it is your kid because you knew you had been sleeping with the mother and never questioned it for ten years, you have by common law accepted (or adopted) that child and he has probably over those ten years signed many government forms stating he was the childs father. (School papers, tax forms etc.)

 

[mrsat_98]

Scream FRAUD and charge everyone from the government that is involved with this case with 18 USC 201 and 18 USC 241 and 242 (jailed such as this equals kidnapping and it carries the dealth penalty) END OF STORY

 

[JaylieWoW]

Ahhhhh......

This particular cause is actually what led me to LewRockwell.com and Ron Paul.

First of all, I see some of you hitting that "slippery slope" often referred to as the "best interest of the child" standard. This sort of bleeding heart syndrom plays upon your emotions thus allowing you to toss reason and justice out the window. It has allowed the family court system authority to tear families completely asunder.

Before you accept this "common law" adoption as having any validity ask yourself this where will it end and how many others have/will be affected by allowing such a perversion of justice to stand.

This man should absolutely be relieved from paying support to the mother. Further, if he still wants to continue his relationship with the child he should be allowed to.

Actually this may turn out to be more fair if he were also allowed additional visitation, thus reducing the expense to the mother to help make up for the loss in direct child support payments.