Ruling on area man's quest to stop child support sets a new tone

TimesLeader.com ^ | April 1, 2003

[LibKill]

Bump for Great Justice!

[rolling_stone]

"The presumption of paternity doctrine ... was created to prevent innocent children from bearing the stigma of illegitimacy," Silverblatt said. "What this does is open the door for the destruction of that doctrine."


I disagree, IMO it opens the door for responsible parenting and the legal and moral objective of not rewarding fraud.

[SauronOfMordor]

ping

[xJones]

This is so difficult. Doran was cheated royally, but now the boy is abandoned by the man he called "Daddy". The mother is to blame, but it's a no win situation. Doran won't have to pay child support which is fair, but he and the boy were cheated.

[OneVike]

From a person that was screwed. by the courts in a< paternity case, this is greeeeeaaat news.

Too late for me, but great news all the same.

[OneVike]

Sometimes women can be real bitch's!

[Bogey78O]

They mispelled Smeagol

[cyborg]

The only person done dirty is the child. I feel sorry for a child who has been abandoned.

[Arkinsaw]

If I found out my son was actually someone elses it wouldn't change a thing in the relationship or in my level of support. I've never understood these stories.

[nomad]

"Stigma of Illegitamacy"? Bull cr*p! That went out the window with the present welfare system.

[misterrob]

"It's a difficult case, no question about it. One sympathy certainly could be with the father. But if we have to adjudicate where sympathy lies, it should lie with the child, not the parents." What a load of bullsh_t!!!! I have no patience with deadbeat Dads but to pin a kid on someone who was not responsible for it is a case of two wrongs not making a right. What they should be doing is forcing the woman to fess up to who she was hosebagging around with and get him to pay for it.

[Nick Danger]

Silverblatt said he understands the concerns raised by fathers rights advocates, but he believes the court's first and foremost responsibility is to the child.

That's a tearjerking crock designed to allow con artists to use children as human shields. That's been going on long enough. It's about time the courts re-visited this issue.

Let's have this woman introduce the kid to the real father, who can now start paying the child support. She can also explain to the kid that she hid his real father from him and lied to him all these years because she cared only about herself, and she treated both the child and the former husband as fools to be lied to for her convenience.

[OneVike]

The only person done dirty is the child

Excuse Me!!

I feel sorry for the child and the man. Imagine finding out that a child you love is not yours. You still love that child, however if you get married again, should your new wife also pay financially for the BITC#@$ deciet?

When the courts rule that a man must pay or you go to jail, and the same judge says he will not enforce visitation rights, when the c@%& moves to another state with the very pr*%@ that impregnated her. I'm sorry the but the man who believed in his vows is the one that gets screwed.

When that child turns 18 and she wants nothing to do with the man paying for her upbringing, but never could afford to visit her for the very reason he paid out the F#^*&^! as%#* for said child.

No, I personally feel for the man.

[honeygrl]

It may be Justice on the father's side but I can't help but feel horribly for the poor child.. can you imagine the person you thought was your father and thought loved you unconditionally decides, "oh wait, I changed my mind." A father is more than just a sperm donor. This story tears me in two directions because I can see his side of it but I still can't see hurting a child that you thought was yours so long and developed a love for like your own as badly as this must hurt this boy. I think a real man would've continued to be the father every child needs. Maybe it's just the mother in me talking.

[Orangedog]

This is a big step in the right direction...for once. If you REALLY want to see a reversal of the destruction of the family, the corner stone of society, then there has to be consequences for fraud...and those consequences have to go to the party who commits it. And as far as the kids losing, they have been losing anyway by being used as tools for fraud-based extortion.

[honeygrl]

"If I found out my son was actually someone elses it wouldn't change a thing in the relationship or in my level of support. I've never understood these stories. "

See, YOU are a real man! We need more like you in this country.

[BossLady]

After reading so many of these stories (and know a few men this has happened to), I have come to the conclusion that a DNA test should be done on the child and supposed parents when the baby is born to eliminate all this crap then and there!

If the DNA doesn't fit, you must aquit!

[honeygrl]

Do you have children? Do you consider them pinned to you? If so, I feel sorry for them.