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A Few Questions and Answers On Child Support.

Today it is important if you are unmarried, and not really familiar with the person you are seeing or a “ONE” time thing to establish paternity, before you start paying any child support.  So you ask what is paternity, well it means fatherhood, knowing that you are the father of the child.  So when married the paternity is established without taking any kind of legal action.  If you are not married, in most cases it is good to get genetic testing and a court order.  If a woman is 100% sure and the father is denying that he is and not paying any child support, then a court order again will be needed to establish the fatherhood.  Genetic testing is very important and most the time they are your most reliable in showing who the father is, that is why so many few paternity cases will ever go to trial. Another question, which is most often asked.  Can a paternity test be done at any age? Yes a child of any age can be tested to see who the father of the child is.  Child support then will need to be paid for the child.  Payments can be set up, even after many years.  There will be back pay in child support, along with future child support payment. So what happens when after a father has taken a paternity test to determine he is the father; it comes out positive and he is still denying that he is the father of the child, and will not pay child support?  Then a trial will be set.  You know what the outcome will be. Many fathers take off, leave the state and we have also seen in times the country, so that genetic testing can not be done, and think they will not have to pay child support.  When the father is found then paternity will be established.  Also the courts will order child support to be issued, along with the back pay of child support.   What if the father has no job, to young and can not pay child support?  Why then is it so important to establish paternity?  This is for future when the father is able to support their child along with certain privileges and rights. So what happens after paternity is established?  There will be paperwork filed to obtain a support order. There will be more information to come on child support questions and answers, feel free at any time to ask questions. Thank you, Child Support 

 

Posted: Nov 21 2007, 08:32 AM by ChildSupport | with no comments |
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