If a divorced dad finds out that a child from the marriage belongs to another man?

Should he still be forced by the family courts to pay child support?





What if bio-dad is a loser from loserville %26amp; non-paternal dad makes 200K/year?If a divorced dad finds out that a child from the marriage belongs to another man?
Nope. Your wife cheats on you, lies to you, then you must pay for her insolence and affair?





I would move out of the country before I would be forced to pay a dime on that bastard.





A situation like that would put me in the nervous hospital or her in the grave.If a divorced dad finds out that a child from the marriage belongs to another man?
If the child was born while he was married to the mom, legally, he or she is his. Should the mom be forced to pay child support to his children by a previous marriage? Legally, she is required to forgo some family income to children that are not hers. This is for the same reason - protecting the child. Children don't disappear when you get divorced.





(And yes, the first situation is really lousy for the guy. Don't marry a tramp. But don't suddenly refuse to be a Dad to Ms. Trampy's child. It's not the child's fault.)
No one should be obligated to put themselves through financial hardship for a child that isn't biologically theirs. If he chooses to continue to care for the child that's his decision. However it's morally wrong to expect a man to pay child support for the product of adultery that isn't the result of his own seed.
Did you ask your lawyer?





It depends on the laws of your state.





If you accepted this child and raised him/her as your own child, you probably still have to pay child support.





HOWEVER, this evidence of adultery during marriage could entitle you to an unequal division of community property. So you could sue her to return some of the commuity property she got.





You might possibly have grounds to change custody, then she would have to pay YOU child support.





The question sounds like there are other children that are yours. You could get custody of them and get child support for them.





What you do with the bio-dad's kid is up to you. You keep your kids, she keeps hers?
This is why paternity tests for all newborns (yes even for married women), is a great idea. I find it interesting how everyone agrees with you........everyone except the court system. Thanks to ';progressive'; laws if a man is married to a woman, then he is responsible for whatever comes flying out of that hole.





So much for equality and controlling your bodies, good job ladies.
I personally don't think that they should be forced to pay child support. However once a name is on the birth certificate, that's the legal father unless someone else steps up and claims the child...at least that's how I understand it. If you truly have any doubt as to whether a child is yours...get that paternity test...cause if it comes out later you're still screwed.
No. Its not his kid, its not his problem. If she cheated she deals with it. She dug her grave now she can lay in it. No one told her to open her legs to a loser when she had a good man at home. Its unfortunate because of her stupidity a child must now suffer.
No, he shouldn't be forced to pay child support. However, if he has formed a bond with that child, he should consider what repudiating the child will do to the kid's psyche.
Not if he don't want to and it is proved that the child is not his through DNA testing. But I am sure the non-paternal dad would be a stand up guy and do it.
No, he shouldn't be forced, but to most men, they would still see that child as THEIR child and would still pay child support.
The non biological father should NOT be forced to pay child support regardless how much money he makes a year.
Yes, it happens all the time. A man should be able to sue for taking care of a child that isn't his.
Men need to stop thinking of themselves and start thinking of the kids.





Be a dad, not a dead beat.
For once I agree with Tracey.
No, he shouldn't have to. Its sad though that we have situations like these
no
I have mixed feelings about this. If they were a family before that should not change. If you adopt a child during a marriage that child becomes a child of the marriage the bonds are there. I know of at least two cases where the guys KNEW the kids weren't theirs and the only time it mattered was when child support became an issue. But both still wanted to say the kids were theirs........