Do you still have to pay child support for a kid if you aren’t married? Legal obligations?

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

What are the legal obligations (US)? If you aren’t married, does she have to worry about the kid on her own? I mean, I’m not gonna raise a kid if she tricked me. If we agreed okay, but otherwise she can handle the kid herself. But I’m wondering if there would be legal consequences to this.

What are the legal obligations for knocking a chick up without being married to her? Can I just walk away like I would normally?

 

[Billtx49]

What are the legal obligations (US)? If you aren’t married, does she have to worry about the kid on her own? I mean, I’m not gonna raise a kid if she tricked me. If we agreed okay, but otherwise she can handle the kid herself. But I’m wondering if there would be legal consequences to this.

What are the legal obligations for knocking a chick up without being married to her? Can I just walk away like I would normally?

The mother is usually the one to raise the kid unless found unfit, but you’re on the hook for child support for about 18 years if she pursues it in the court system.…

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

The mother is usually the one to raise the kid unless found unfit, but you’re on the hook for child support for about 18 years if she pursues it in the court system.…

Even if you’re not legally tied to her? And if we don’t even know if the kid is yours?

 

[Billtx49]

Even if you’re not legally tied to her? And if we don’t even know if the kid is yours?

She has to prove it with DNA testing if you deny in court. You knock her up, you pay if she comes after it.

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

She has to prove it with DNA testing if you deny in court. You knock her up, you pay if she comes after it.

But can the court mandate a DNA test on her behalf? Or can you just decline?

 

[sosousage]

But can the court mandate a DNA test on her behalf? Or can you just decline?

Whom did you impregnate

 

[Billtx49]

But can the court mandate a DNA test on her behalf? Or can you just decline?

I believe most courts would mandate it yes. They’re usually biased in the womans favor…
She claims you’re the daddy, you have to prove youre not. It’s a damn good argument for condom use…
The only out you usually have is if she chooses to abort.

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

I believe most courts would mandate it yes. They’re usually biased in the womans favor…
She claims you’re the daddy, you have to prove youre not. It’s a damn good argument for condom use…
The only out you usually have is if she chooses to abort.
Were you doing any hard drugs at the time that could result in a deformed newborn?

I don’t have anyone. The vasectomy thread just got me curious as to how it works.

 

[dude99]

But can the court mandate a DNA test on her behalf? Or can you just decline?

You are better off getting the proof regardless, because in some states if she deems you the father you have a small window to dispute her claim. If you do not dispute the claim in the window of time alotted by your state then the state makes you fincially responsible.....even if the kid isnt yours, they will garnish your wages just so the state doesnt have to pay for the child. Once that time is over, you are on the hook for 18 plus years.

Dna can get you off death row, and prove you are not a murder.

Dna can and does a lot of the time prove the child is not yours.

But dna can not get you off the hook if the state deems you fincially responsible.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Family law varies in each state. There have been a few cases where courts have ruled that a man who "holds himself out as the father" for a period of time, usually years, can be ordered to pay support. These cases are in the minority, and happen in the more liberal places in the US.

 

[MatureDJ]

What are the legal obligations (US)? If you aren’t married, does she have to worry about the kid on her own? I mean, I’m not gonna raise a kid if she tricked me. If we agreed okay, but otherwise she can handle the kid herself. But I’m wondering if there would be legal consequences to this.

What are the legal obligations for knocking a chick up without being married to her? Can I just walk away like I would normally?

It doesn't matter whether she "tricked you" or not (aside from her stealing your sp3rm from a fertility clinic, etc.) If she names you as the babydaddy, and the DNA test confirms it, you are as on the hook for child support as if you had married her.

 

[MatureDJ]

Family law varies in each state. There have been a few cases where courts have ruled that a man who "holds himself out as the father" for a period of time, usually years, can be ordered to pay support. These cases are in the minority, and happen in the more liberal places in the US.

Yes. If a man treats the child like it's his, then he is on the hook for child support even if the child was not biologically his. Behold the cuckold!

 

[marmel75]

Hell yeah you do...or you could just be a deadbeat loser who sits in jail