If the father of a child hasn't seen the child since birth, what are his rights by law?
If you have not taken him to court for custody or visitation rights. He has every right that he would if he was there from the first day. I know it sucks but she needs to take him to court for child support and let the judge know he has not been there for years and try to get his visitation rights taken away. good luck
My boyfriend might have fathered a child?
I've been with my boyfriend for 3 months, and Im falling in love with him. He recently dropped a bombshell about how he may have fathered a child around 6 years ago. He was seeing the potential mother of his child for a few weeks and apparently she was a mess who slept around a bit - so he broke up with her. A few months down the line he gets a call saying she's pregnant and he's the father, my boyfriend being only 20 at the time wanted her to have an abortion and didn't want anything to do with this child (immature I know..) The mother of his child said she would get an abortion and my boyfriend didn't hear anything else. However, her due date comes round and she tells my boyfriend she's gone through with it- my boyfriend immediately asks for a Paternity test, but he never hears from the girl again. He hasn't spoken to her since and doesn't know if he's got a child. It has affected him greatly since, he tells me he doesn't think about it much at all, but it's something I need to know about his past. I don't know how i feel about the whole situation.. It makes me uncomfortable that my boyfriend might have been immature enough to get a girl pregnant and then not step up to the mark; it makes me question his character. however, I find it odd that the potential mother of his child would deny him a paternity test and would not want a father to her child. I am beginning to love my boyfriend and I feel that this might be too much baggage to deal with .... What should I do?
What will happen if I take my child's father off of child support and can I put him back on if I want?
If he really wants to be with you for YOU, then he won't make forgiving the arrearage and canceling his child support an issue. If he does, then there's your answer.Now, what you can do is get him off child support on a go-forward basis, provided he intends for the 3 of you to live together, and for his income to go towards supporting the entire household.But don't forgive the arrearage. That's money you've already spent supporting your child, and he needs to pay his share of the past. ( You can't waive money owed to the State anyway.) If he's ready to be a stand up father and husband, that's great. Tell him to put his money where his mouth is. If he means it, then he will.
Absent parent...Now demanding to see our child?
Downside: I think he just wants to mess with you. He doesn't care about the boy he just using that as an excuse to get under your skin. If he cared about his son he wouldn't been missing for around 4 yrs. If you two do go to court and they can see that you're a fit mother, than you have nothing to worry about. Positive:Maybe he was going through something around 4 yrs and now it hit him that's it's time for him to be in his child's life. You should let him see his dad because that would be wrong and what child don't want to meet their dad once, personally, in their lifetime. *Your just trying to protect your son from getting hurt and you don't want your son around negativity like him.*
Should I bother with child support?
Don't file for child support! I am in a huge custody battle over my 13 yr old son right now. I have been married for 11.5 years to the same man, whom has raised my son mind you. We tried a step parent adoption when my son was 6, which fell through because bio dad would not agree to terminate his rights...he's on the birth certificate. So the court awarded support to me. We went ahead and filed for review of visitation and child support last year (age 12) because he hadn't seen my son in over year, and we did not know where he lived. He came back and is now fighting for CUSTODY, all over a few bucks for child support! So, my advise...let it go if you don't want the stress of him ruining your son's life. Good Luck!
What do I do about my mother lying to me for over ten years?
My parents were divorced when I was 5. Mom told me that my dad ran out on us and never paid any child support. He's never come to see me, not even for my birthdays. Seeing other questions on here by kids my age, I decided to find him and demand to know why he abandon us? My mother was very much against. She forbid me from trying as he would refuse to see me, since he's a deadbeat. She said I don't need the disappointment and if I loved her, I wouldn't put myself through that. I didn't listen to her and found him in the next town over, so I had a friend drive me. I was very angry when he opened the door, but he didn't say a thing. He just went in, than came out with this big folder of papers and a photo album. I took it out to the car, but now I wish I hadn't. It contained the divorce, including how my mother had several affairs with both men and women, together. I knew my mother had lots of boyfriends who've stayed the night, and there's been female friends she's spent the night with, but I didn't know that was the cause of the divorce. There was a paper of his child support payments from the court. It showed he had never not my mother. It showed several times when he asked the court to make my mother allow him to see me and though the judge told her to obey the court orders she never did. I guess there's no laws against her ignoring the court orders. He gave up trying after six years and 17 tries. The album had photos of me. They look like they were taken from a distance, including photos of me playing in little league. There was photos of toys and things that I thought mom had bought me, but now I see she hadn't. He had remembered all my birthdays and Christmas. Now I don't know what to do. What do I say to my mother? She's been lying to me all this time. She still doesn't know I saw him and I still have the folder and album. What do I say to my father? I've hated him for so long. I couldn't even go back in, we just left. By disobeying my mother, does that mean I don't love her? I'm not sure how I feel. It will be a couple of years before I turn 18, so I have to live with her. What do I do? I'm sorry for how long this is.