Once again, Missouri judges have ordered a man to pay thousands of dollars in child support for a child he didn’t father. The mother in this case has declared to the court that the man is not the father. Yet a state agency says he is. The desire of the state to throw this man in jail was upheld by an appeals court. This man and others like him are being used in a scheme that declares that it’s best for a child to force anybody to pay instead of the real father.
Every weekday, huge television audiences tune in to the spectacle of a dysfunctional adult and the object of their dysfunction are used in a daytime ratings race. Never knowing who their true father is is the long term suffering the children will endure. Nothing beneficial can come out of the display of a mother testing 5 or more men to determine who fathered her baby, this is something that will forever follow the child.
Many men are trapped into paying child support because they either fail to contest paternity or are declared by the state administrativly. Unlike the Missouri Legislature several states have changed or are considering changes that allows innocent men to defend themselves with DNA evidence. Many various bills in the House and Senate of Missouri would have allowed that here, but these bills were ignored by the legislature.
In most states, a reputed father can be declared without his knowledge, making the very short time to contest useless. A period of one year is the standard in Missouri, Kansas, and many other states. Child support usually must be paid until children turn at least 18. Judges follow a legal process clearly designed to disregard who the real father is and require anybody but the real father to provide for the children. This is tantamount to state sponsored paternity fraud.
If there is a requirement of paternity testing before any requirement of child support a great deal of expense, pain, and family disruption can be avoided.And this also gives some women the opportunity to take more responsibility for their actions. No longer will lies be able to hurt so many lives in the long run.
And it can be a very long-run. In one of these cases a Missouri Court found “…is now held to be the father of (the child) for all purposes and all time,” , “despite both mother and father’s statements to the contrary and without any determination of that relationship by a court of law.”
It is unfair that a man has to pay for a child that is not his, regardless of true paternity a husband is still required by law to support the children even if he did not father them. It is obvious that in Missouri paternity fraud is rampant.
So frequently we hear about womens rights and dead beat dads.But what about responsible men who want to do the right thing? Where are the rights for these men? Along with mandatory paternity testing their should be a mandatory law stating that the woman should pay back the child support received over how ever long period the time due to the fact that the child/children are not his.
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