Child Support, Establish Paternity.
If you are not married, and not familiar enough with the person you have seen, or a ONE time moment and then someone ends up pregnant, and your just not sure, before you pay any child support it is important that you find out and make sure that you are the father of the child, even if you are unmarried and think you know the person, there has been many cases, where fathers pay child support and find out years down the road, they were not the father of the child, so establishing paternity to make absolute sure is important. So when married the paternity is usually already established through the legal bond of marriage. If you are not married, in most cases it is good to get paternity testing and a court order, to let the court no you are one not a dead beat father, you just want to make total sure, that you are paying for your child. 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 paternity, and the father will have to go for testing, to make sure. Genetic testing is very important and in most cases is absolutely the most accurate way of testing to make sure who the father is.
Another question, is can paternity testing be done at any age? Yes a child of any age can be tested to see who the father of the child is. Back payments in child support then will need to be paid for the child, along with current child support payments. Payments can be set up, even after many years, they really do not expect most father to pay any back child support in a lump sum.
What happens when after a father has taken a paternity test, it shows he is the father, but he is still saying that he is not, well then a trial date will be set in court.
Many fathers take off,and leave the state and sometimes leave the country, so that genetic testing can't be done, and think they will never 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.
Also another good question is if the father has no job, or 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, or you talk about fathers denying the child and going to court, what happens then? There will be paperwork filed to obtain a support order, if they do not pay, they can also do jail time in some states.