Can you be forced to take a paternity test?

[Mad Man]

[BLOCKQUOTE]Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
-Steve Martin
Parenthood


And for those of you writing about "there was this case where," could you please post links!!!???? This is the internet, for Allah's sake, not the lame-stream media. It's not that hard.

Without a reference, your stories have about as much validity as any other claim made at the local watering hole (or a Band Camp story).

 

[bogie]

Snopes didn't come up with anything. I'm inclined to believe.

IMHO, both parties should agree on either having the child, or not having the child, with support if necessary.

 

[auschip]

And for those of you writing about "there was this case where," could you please post links!!!???? This is the internet, for Allah's sake, not the lame-stream media. It's not that hard.

Without a reference, your stories have about as much validity as any other claim made at the local watering hole (or a Band Camp story).

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_6_34/ai_93090048

Discusses many of the cases above.

Not knowing for sure (and trying to keep this on topic), I have heard that a person can lose their RKBA for being delinquent in child support. Is that a state by state rule, or would you get a nics hit?

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Anyways I'am just curious as this is still the united states of america where I'am assuming good citizens can't be forced to give up thair blood samples.

I am continually surprised by Americans who think that just because they are in American that things they don't like should not happen.

 

[Tory]

Connect the dots......

Long enough for the little girl to have bonded with him as her father, I'm guessing.

True. But what does that have to do with forced child support?

As stated in the very article you posted, THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD! THAT is the standard by which the matter is judged; not your fiscal analysis.

In short, the putative father failed to act in time, he accepted the child AND SHE HIM, with the result that terminating the relationship would harm the girl.

Rights you sleep on are rights you lose.

 

[Augustwest]

Not to be a control freak but how is this gun related?

It isn't. But it falls pretty heavily under the heading of "other civil rights."

 

[Art Eatman]

When men in great numbers don't accept a responsibility, and it costs the taxpayers money in a time of tight budgets, the State WILL step in--particularly on an issue such as child support.

Do SOME women take advantage? You bet your sweet bippy they do! Unfortunately for one young lady of my acquaintance, three of her four "targets" proved to not be the father. The Guilty Party, a travellin' man sort of biker, was never found.

So, AFDC and rent subsidy...

Art

 

[MillCreek]

In my younger days, I worked in a research lab in support of the local bone marrow transplant (BMT) program. Seattle is a world leader in this type of transplant. A child needed a BMT for treatment of leukemia. A successful transplant requires a donor who matches several genetic factors, and I did some of the testing for these factors. In these cases, you routinely test the parents and other children for the genetic markers to see if they might be a suitable donor. As it turned out, the husband was not the father of the child who needed the transplant, nor was he the father of two of the remaining three children. He was completely unaware of this. On the upside, the child received a successful transplant and was disease free five years later.

 

[BenW]

Nobody disputes that fathers should support their kids.

Interestingly in the EU now, it seems that sperm donors can be forced to pay child support. They're technically the father, but......

If only both males AND females took more personal responsibility in the whole procreation thing....

 

[shaldag]

My cousin, who lives in Sacramento, CA, received a letter from the family support unit of the Los Angeles County District Attorney saying that he had been named the father of unborn Baby 'X' in Los Angeles County. This was really interesting as my cousin had not been in Los Angeles County in a couple of years.

It turns out that the mother of unborn Baby 'X' applied for welfare benefits and when asked the father's name made up a name which happened to be my cousin's. When asked where he lived she said, "I think he lives in Sacramento."

The family support officer looked in the phone book and found my cousin. He got the letter telling him to support unborn Baby 'X'.

It was pretty entertaining, my cousin having his own family, but the mother of unborn Baby 'X' finally 'fessed' up and admitted she made up the name of the baby's father.

Pilgrim

This is not surprising. I have read material about the DA of LA, Gil Garcetti (remember the OJ trial?) who makes it a point to do this. If given a common name, his office will go after an individual of that name without necessarily ensuring that it is the right individual. And when confronted with the knowledge that his office has made a mistake, let us say that Garcetti and his underlings are not overly concerned. Your cousin was lucky that the mother "fessed up". He could still be paying.

 

[TallPine]

Sure - they just strap you to the bed and tazer you till you give up

 

[spartacus2002]

This is not surprising. I have read material about the DA of LA, Gil Garcetti (remember the OJ trial?) who makes it a point to do this. If given a common name, his office will go after an individual of that name without necessarily ensuring that it is the right individual. And when confronted with the knowledge that his office has made a mistake, let us say that Garcetti and his underlings are not overly concerned. Your cousin was lucky that the mother "fessed up". He could still be paying.

You are absolutely right. I helped a young man who was stuck paying child support that his father of the same name was supposed to pay. Even though I provided a paternity test, the different SSNs, and a written admission from his father, Garcetti's office refused to do anything about it.

 

[ibex]

In Germany, the "Social-Democratic Party" tried (or are still trying, not sure) to pass a law that would make private (i.e. not court ordered) paternity tests inadmissible (sp?) in courts. So even if you had absolute, scientific proof that you are not the father, you'd still have to pay child support if your name is on the birth certificate. A court will only order such a test when there is "reasonable doubt" to your paternity. And a negative paternity test is not "reasonable doubt", because it is not admissible.

The "reasoning" (if you can call it that) is that an alleged father has no right to violate a childs privacy by taking a DNA sample. So far so good. But strangely, this party is quite in favor of biometric passports. Even more strangely, it's perfectly okay to violate the childs right to privacy if the mother demands a paternity test.

Luckily, the proposal met with (for german standards) fierce resistance.

I'm not saying, "be glad they can force you take a paternity test, elsewhere they forbid you to take one". I'm just saying, don't oppose this too much, it might backfire.