This law allows an alleged father to challenge the paternity of a child with genetic evidence. If he wins (proves that the child is not his), he is no longer required to pay child support.

Men’s rights advocates claim the law gives justice to men decieved into paying child support for someone else’s child. Child advocates claim the law is not in the best interests of mothers or children, and will increase the state’s welfare burden.

What is your opinion?
This article from the Miami Herald gives more details:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/15882285.htm

As far as I know, the law does not apply to adoptive fathers. It is only for men who accept responsibility for a child under the mistaken assumption that they are the biological father of the child.

My husband has sent his ex more than the required amount of child support every month since they separated. But, to get more money, she signed the kids up for welfare and told them he has never paid support. The boys are living with us and have been with us 70% of the time in the last 2 years! In March the state of Missouri said he owed k in back support and started garnishing his wages 00/mo. After 2 months of letters, numerous phone calls and mailing receipts etc to prove he doesn’t owe it, we finally got the case closed. I called to ask about being reimbursed for the 00 they had taken that he didn’t owe and was told we couldn’t get it back. They had sent her part of it and put the rest toward her welfare debt! How can this be legal? It’s not his debt! I did turn her in to social services for welfare fraud. This has caused us a serious financial hardship. Is there anything we can do to get our money back from the state?
Barb, I am so glad you know everything! Yes she was awarded custody and child support in the divorce. He started paying her support starting the month they separated and sometimes sent her extra just because he wanted to make sure they had what they needed! Then 6 months later called and told us to come get the boys because she couldn’t handle them! They have been with us ever since. They have started calling me Mommy. Don’t tell me It’s none of my business! I am the one that takes care of these boys 24/7! I am the one who has watched them and my own kids go without because she was selfish! And don’t tell me we don’t deserve to be reimbursed! We proved that he didn’t owe her a dime, that’s why they closed the case!

Maybe you should go back and read the question again, because you obviously didn’t understand the situation. Or maybe you are just hostile because you have dealt with a dead beat dad. I have been there! But my husband is a great dad and takes care of his kids and mine!

My best friend has, for the past 8 years, been paying much more than state (Texas) law dictates for child support. It was increased simply because his ex-wife went into the court house and told them that he was earning more, with no documentation at all. She has never faced fraud charges or any other consequences. The only answer he gets from the courts is: "Just keep paying until we sort this out". Are there any agencies that offer help to people that are being railroaded and bullied by the system? How do you make the courts understand that you are not a dead-beat, but that you are being overcharged?

Would many single mother agree to never ask for child support of a new born, if the father will give the mother ,000 case advance on his credit card, that will be paid in cash. You will never have to deal with him again, because he will never exercise his parental rights. After ward the father will file for bankruptcy 14 months later and Citibank will lose that amount of money in bankruptcy court. I mean 300 one hundred dollar bills cash, so there is no record of you getting any money. A bankruptcy lawyer will make sure that this is legal and not credit card fraud.

In not doing so it basically gives the entire system an open door to commit fraud, and extort money from a large portion of the population while collecting interest in the process. Charging you interest, funny. I don’t recall child support being a loan that is given…

In not doing so it basically gives the entire system an open door to commit fraud, and extort money from a large portion of the population while collecting interest in the process. Charging you interest, funny. I don’t recall child support being a loan that is given…

My teenager wanted to go live with her father earlier this year, so she went. (The father lives out of state.) As he owes ,000 in arrears, apparently, his license was suspended for not paying, and he called a week after she arrived, to ask me to drop the case against him so he could reinstate it. I told him no, and because of this, I was sued for child support myself. (Which I don’t mind at all, because I have a totally different view on support, being that I know what it was like to live without it.)

However, when the papers arrived, he had the audacity to lie and list my daughter down as 8 years old, and needing daycare costs. He also listed down that he was unemployed and that her medical insurance premiums were 0 a month.

Is this sounding a little crazy?

My daughter told me that he is working under the table in a mall salon (ran by asians– I don’t mean that as racist, as he is asian, too) and collecting on his 4th unemployment extension. (The papers state that he also has not been employed for over 5 years.)

What do I do about this? These papers are to up a proposed order that he said was too minimal. (He is wanting to seek at least 0 a month from me.) There is obviously a lot of fraud going on, but when I am told by the system "we can’t do anything about it but go by what he tells us", I feel like I’m being victimized once again. I mean, here I’ve been living by the book, and here he’s been, cheating unemployment, cheating our daughter all these years, and being rewarded with being able to go to school and getting two different degrees. While I’ve been having to hold the brunt of it, trying to get by.

Any suggestions?

**The custody is totally open, so she can return if she wants. However, there are more opportunities to get ahead in the area she lives in, so she wants to stay.

In not doing so it basically gives the entire system an open door to commit fraud, and extort money from a large portion of the population while collecting interest in the process. Charging you interest, funny. I don’t recall child support being a loan that is given…

In not doing so it basically gives the entire system an open door to commit fraud, and extort money from a large portion of the population while collecting interest in the process. Charging you interest, funny. I don’t recall child support being a loan that is given…

My Ex and I have been apart for over 4 years. My daughter lives with me and my husband. My ex was not supposed to claim her on his taxes because we fully support her. He pays about 0 a year in child support and my ex only sees her for less than a month combined each year by his choice. This year when we filed our taxes we found out that he claimed her and got the child tax credit for her. Now we are in legal trouble for claiming the child that we are entitled to. My ex knew that he was not supposed to claim her he was even told this by the accountant that he went to at HnR Block first to file his taxes but he went to another place and did it anyway. Now the amount has been deducted from our return and we have to show proof that she resides with us and we support her. What will happen to my ex when the IRS finds out he knowingly committed tax fraud? And will we ever see that money now?
We were never married and I never filed for sole custody. I also never went to child support. We had made an agreement between us on the support amount. We live in NY and he lives in Virginia. I wanted to keep things peaceful for my daughter. I do have school records and medical proof that she resides with us for 95% of the year though.
My husband and I have a personal accountant that has handled his family taxes for a few generations. We discussed claiming her last year before we were married and we were told that we have every right to claim her. My ex went to an accountant as well last year and was told the same thing but he claimed her anyway. We do keep records of support paid also.
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My husband and I were living together but not not married last year so we could not file jointly and claim her at that time!
Vb our income well exceeded 000 and we had already filed our taxes and were waiting for the return when we did not receive it our accountant investigated why and found out that my ex claimed her. We did receive a portion of our federal return but not the amount we were entitled to

My ex told me that this year I can claim my daughter on my taxes bc he hasn’t paid me any child support. So I filed my taxes and he just called me today to let me know that he called the IRS to let them know that I only had 49% custody and he told me that now i’m going to be arrested for fraud and it was all his girlfriends scam to get rid of me. So does anyone know waht happens now? I haven’t recieved a call from the IRS.
I also have legal custody but no legal agreement saying that I can claim her. With the child support I am only supposed to get a percent of it and the rest goes to the welfare office but for now he is just a ghost to them bc they can’t find any info on him. So I can’t really figure out why he is going to file his taxes if he hasn’t had a job or an adress just avoid paying child support
I also have legal custody and split physical custody but no legal agreement saying that I can claim her. With the child support I am only supposed to get a percent of it and the rest goes to the welfare office but for now he is just a ghost to them bc they can’t find any info on him. So I can’t really figure out why he is going to file his taxes if he hasn’t had a job or an adress just avoid paying child support

my ex husband and divorced in 1997. I have claimed my son every year on taxes with no problem. I went and had my efile return done several weeks ago. the next day, my tax preparer called and said someone was claimed on taxes,so I had mail(paper) my tax return and wait for a letter to come from the IRS to complete for them to decide who was to claim. I called my ex asap and of course to be mean and vindictive ( also girlfriend does taxes) he claimed my son. he barely worked last year so he must have gotten EITC. I am so mad. He has now messed up my claim. I had Primary custody court ordered all these years and was receiving child support all of last year for my son. does anyone know what will happen and how long this will take? he commited tax fraud, what will happen to him? i really don’t care , I hope he pays for what he has done. he also did this to his other ex wife this return too fro their child. will it be forever before I get my return?

My oldest son’s father is from Argentina. He was here legally on a VISA through his father, who became a US Citizen through employment with Hewlett Packard. A couple years ago however, after we split up, he moved to Virginia, and was then deported a year later after facing federal fraud charges for cashing his father’s tax refund check, and had his VISA revoked. He is now in Argentina, and I was wondering if there’s a way to track him down and collect child support from him even though he’s in another country. Anything would help being as our son has some medical issues, and being a single mom with 3 other kids, keeping the bills paid is already a struggle.

I asked in a similar question but it a different catagory, I thought maybe legal adivse would help better for this problem my husband is having. He has been paying child support for a little over a year now, he was court order to pay 100 a week by a judge when they got divorced, he paid her directly through her account. He has almost 5,000 in his bank statements that show he sent them to her account. About 6 months ago he received a letter saying he owes 2,000 dollars to her for non payment. He also has a letter of which weeks and what amount was paid and her signature is on the paper, so she went to child support saying he hadn’t really been paying. She needed to go to child support because she was pregnant and needed medicaid for herself, she is remarried but receives food stamps, child support from a previous relation and she get unemployment. I don’t know whether she told dcf she was getting 400 a month or not, but now my husband bank account is negative 4,000 in checking and in savings, his license is suspended, he now has 120 coming out of his paycheck every week, on a bad week he will bring home only 260. There isn’t a way to prove if she lied on her medicaid application or not but the letter she signed basically says she’s agreed that that was all she was given. She even said to him that she would call and tell them he was up to date but they needed her to come in and she never did because she’s too lazy too, she hasn’t worked in almost 2 years. And on top of everything all the times she had not come to pick the kids up and he had them for a week or more, he has the kids 3 to 4 days during the week, and that’s overnight. she begged him to take the kids when he was working while she was giving birth to another child even though he had to work, I even watch the kids when he can’t. Is there a way to get her for fraud? And pay the over draft fees?
We just need some good advise, we are already going to child support to straighten it out, but there are overdraft fees, and lisence renstatements penalties to pay too. We have a baby on the way and need to clear up this matter.
Bad mouthing would be much worse if I wanted to, she has 5 kids with 4 different dads, has no job, is about 5′4 and 350 lbs after having so many kids and doesn’t take care of herself or the kids at all, her house has been visited by dcf twice because she doesn’t take care of her house or the kids, no its not bad mouthing its just God honest truth.
Bad mouthing would be much worse if I wanted to, she has 5 kids with 4 different dads, has no job, is about 5′4 and 350 lbs after having so many kids and doesn’t take care of herself or the kids at all, her house has been visited by dcf twice because she doesn’t take care of her house or the kids, no its not bad mouthing its just God honest truth.

from a man she knows can provide for her child or a woman who tries to get herself pregnant solely to have a child and not for monetary gain?

So again, in the first instance she accidentally gets pregnant and decides afterwards to name the wrong man for money and in the second, her main objective is to have a child and she is not seeking child support. Which is worse?

Inspired by Ello.
Btw, I understand they’re both super deceptive but which do you think is worse?

This guy has taken care of his child since the months before the child was born, The child has always lived with him. First it started out with the mother & child then mother moved out, start staying with different guys then with her mother then she got her own apartment, But all the while she left the child staying with him & his mother, He took the child to doctor appointments, bought clothes, food and diapers, she took the child with her to stay all night child cried for her daddy the mother left her apartment then moved back in with him, started acting crazy moved in with her mother took the child but he continued to take care of his child, then she got mad at him start tearing up his car then she gave him back the child then she put child support on him Because she wanted him to marry her this young lady acts crazy she calls his mother Bi*** because she see right through her act, she lies a lot & just want him to take care of her that is why she filed child support, He was going to file before her but he did not want to that to her. What can he do does anyone out there consider this child support fraud?

What can happen if you r found for lying on child support papers n lying about your income to get medical?

So I am going to court in 3 weeks for child support. I received my documents that I submitted and my x-gf submitted. I was going over her documents and noticed she said that she stated that she makes no income; however, has 00 dollars in expenses. Then she goes on and doesn’t list any source of income. To me this is very strange. Also she didn’t mention anything about her house that she owns or her Jaguar that was paid in cash a year ago for 20k. She purchased her house back in 06, and makes a monthly payment of 1800dollars a month. I have the deed to her house that cleary show she is the owner. That is 3300 dollars in monthly outflow, but dosen’t work?

When you sign on the child support papers it clearly states, “I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the California that the information contained on all pages of this form and any attachments is true and correct.”

I would like to know, if she is going to be charged for perjury, and who will pursue this? Also, I would like to note, this is the same woman that is collecting Medi-Cal and Wick both government assistance. How did she pull that off in the state of California with owning a house and all her assets? Isn’t that fraud? I know she didn’t even mention her house or her Jaguar to them, she lied about that because she told me awhile back.

I have no problem with paying child support, however, when she is abusing our system and then lying on legal documents, to get more money out of me, I’m sorry but a line has to be drawn.

What can happen, who will look into this? Will she go to jail (God Forbid, but this is the same woman that I found out has been working as an escort, I found an email saying how much she charges but dates back to 06, will that suffice as evidence)

I am seeking joint custody, should I just go for full custody, her daughter from her previous marriage is already traumatized because her mom would always drop her off at night, I know I am asking several questions here, but please help me out. . .

Just before my son joined the marines the ex takes me to court for an increase in child support.She was denied. Later I found out my son had just graduated from Camp Lejeune. I went to court (NY state) and had him emancipated. I ask the judge for the monies I had overpaid and was denied ! This is tantamount to Fraud and making money off a soldier. I don’t seem to have any recourse. Is there any way to recover the nine months I’ve overpaid? It really is not about the money but just the thought of her using my son as an additional income. It’s unconscionable that a mother would use her son that way and that the courts say they can’t do anything. I just don’t believe it
just for the neo nazi female libbers and I imagine there are few here just from some of the answers . I have NEVER been in arrears. In fact because I travel overseas I ususally have a 00 escrow account in case I can’t make a payment. Also last year I gave ,000 hopefully for a contribution for an education. Instead she bought a new car. Also I paid the ex for their health insurance. I later found out she never carried health insurance. . I’ve sucked it up plenty of times. and I always give in. I don’t like giving it to lawyers. I’d rather just give in and have it go to the kids. I had my son emancipated with out him there because he was IN THE Marines! I wonder the different answers I would have got if it was a man that did this ? I should have know better than try to get any supportive advice. I’ll get a lawyer and I thank you for you time . Fraud from ex wives and there are plenty are worse than criminals. They use their kids for profit . don’t put me in your deadbeat dad jar.

This involves the states of Missouri and Montana
I am not yet divorced but have been separated from my wife for 5 years,due to finances, my work schedule, and her moving around constantly I am just now being able to start a divorce, which I know I can handle in my state of Montana.
However,before I have all the time needed for the divorce, I am needing to get a modification of my child support because its been over 3 years, I make less money,Health ins through my work is taking almost half my pay, all the kids are of school age now, she remains unemployed/underemployed because the boyfriend of 3 years she lives with supports her and makes a living on my support and pawning my poor kids stuff, and the main factor is she just moved my kids 1800 miles away from me and their extended family to Missouri and I have been active in their lives until she did this. I am wanting to get things modified before she does something to create a mess like she did the last time she moved states and got me charged CS by 2 states, but Montana doesnt seem to care, should I contact MO even though I dont live there and they dont have a case with me but there is an existing order in MT?
My second question is I am wanting to petition a DNA test and Affidavit Denial of Paternity for the youngest child who is 6. He is definitely not mine(product of 1 of many affairs she had) I was just given incorrect information about my rights when he was born and I was niave My wife has been quite ballsy and open in talking with the guy that I guess is his biological father and sending emails saying "here are pics of your son" I feel this has been fraud against me, shes moved closer to this guy now and is saying he can see him, and she even let him talk w/him on his birthday, and in recent years she has alienated just that child from me he doesnt even want to come with my other kids to visit anymore, and she has him calling her live in boyfriend Dad, and the child has what is considered a hereditary health prob and knowing the real father even just for that would probably help that situation.
But again I dont know what state to go through for that, do I go through my state of Montana, her new state of Missouri where the children are now?
I am very confused
Thank you everyone I feel I have a bit of direction now anyway. Oh and I can use the fact that shes a mooch
"(1) The parent entitled to receive support is unemployed or underemployed
because the expenses of that parent are paid, in whole or in part, by a person with whom
that parent cohabits"

The child was born in RI, Father lives in RI pays child support to RI. Childs Mother moved & took child to VA and does not contact father even with anything or a option to see child (which is besides the point) but now the Father has a demand from VA to pay child support when he is already paying RI ?? Is this Fraud for the mother to collect from RI & VA ??
I also would like to note the child now is 9 & the fater has been paying RI for 7 yrs, she left the state of RI about 5 yrs ago.. Its just a pain having to go through everything to prove this and that when hes doing what he needs to do & pay it… Now getting a note from VA saying they are demanding 1700 + within 10 days & this is the first he has heard of it..

my ex wife faild to report that during the first three months of separation which i was required to pay child support that her and the kids were still living with me as they had before.

My "friend" has a BIG predicament. This girl claimed her baby was his (they lived together at the time, dating, etc)… two years of child support (financial and emotional) later in the great state of California, she admits that it is actually his roommates’. At the age the child is now… you can tell by looks, if not anything else.
After being told this right before a 2-year mark the state requires, he took a DNA test proving this correct but the COURT LOST HIS INFORMATION (NO JOKE!!!) and he has no money for a lawyer.
She received over ,000 from him in those two years, his license is suspended by the state for failure to pay any more, isn’t that fraud on her part?
Any advice? Thank you!!
*Er, by lost his info I mean they have an old, nasty bat that works at this county’s office and they have "no record" any longer for the DNA test, so the next one of course, would be at his expense*
* Would it be possible to get an attorney to take the case for free until he sees his back pay in child support you think?*
Sorry if this is confusing!

I work for a Law Enforcement Agency, and I find that throughout the years, a large majority of men and even some women don’t pay child support. Where I work we deal with welfare cases. All of them women are on welfare and are at a young age, and have at least two or more children. Many of these women have been to jail, cheat the system and lie about their household size, if they have a live in boyfriend, and do all sorts of welfare fraud.
On the other side we have young men that may be good men, they go to college, work, they may even have another family. What do we say when they refuse to pay because the mother of their child that is on welfare, uses the child support for own personal needs? We got A LOT of cases like that, where the woman uses the child support on illegal narcotics, uses for someone else, and never puts the money away for any college savings. why are woman punishing men for being fathers

I’m 22 years old, with a fiancee and a 3 month old baby boy !!!!!!! My fiancee has another a daughter with his ex about 6 years ago and he hasn’t seen his little girl since she was 2 because of his ex. He tried everything he could to see her for about year and he gave up after that because he thought there was no hope for it. Well when I was about 2 months pregnant his ex starts a whole bunch of shit with me on myspace, now I’ll remind you I had no idea who she was or what his ex even looked like I just knew her name and heard all of the mean and coldhearted things she did when they were together. I mean she wrote some really mean blogs about us and even our unborn child at that time, she continued to mess with me until about two weeks ago and everything stopped, which we thought was weird. Well that same day my fiancee got a thing through the mail about her. She filed for child support for thier daughter the day after our son was born. Now my questions are when he does go to court for it can she request me not to be around their daughter, can he bring up her insurance fraud that she had done when thier daughter was a year old, can he bring it up that she has been harassing me? Because one of the things that he’s going to tell the judge is "She left me when I had nothing but now since I have a fiancee, a son , a good job, and a house of our own now she wants a piece of it." And how long will this take to process? I’m just a little nervous because I don’t know what will happen? Please Help!

My wife disconnected her phone and moved, secreting away my daughter in another state 3 years ago. During that time I hired a private investigator and a lawyer. We found my wife (no separation paperwork, or anything, so no child custody order) and filed a divorce in that state. I won full custody of her, and she is now living with me. During the time she was hiding, my wife filed for Medicaid (about a year ago.)

I have now been served paperwork from the state claiming I owe child support for that period time, in excess of ,000. Also during the last 6 months of the support from medicaid she didn’t have custody, and further more, she gave custody over to the Native Tribe she is a part of.

Is there any basis to this? Am I responsible? Or should I file fraud against her? Can I even do that?

Please let me know, and if you have any questions for me please ask! Thank you in advance.
An Addition:

I do have an attorney, and they are looking at it. I did receive custody, and ahve my daughter. I am suppose to be getting child support from her, though she is currently not working, and as far as I know she hasn’t filed the forms to do so. I am not responcible for any back support according to the ruling from the courts.