Posted on 07/13/2007 6:00:54 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Francisco Rodriguez owes more than $10,000 in back child support payments in a paternity case involving a 15-year-old girl who, according to DNA results and the girl's mother, is not his daughter.
Francisco Rodriguez is fighting for leniency in his paternity case. "It's not right. I'm not the father, " he said.
Rodriguez, who is married with two daughters and a son from his wife's previous marriage, is fighting for leniency. "It's not right. I'm not the father, " he said at a recent court hearing.
He says he knew nothing about the other girl until paperwork showed up about four years ago saying he was the father.
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Men are screwed in this country. No matter what.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
As we say in the Cuban parts of Miami....he is “es-screwed”!
Court precedents are clear...innocence is NO DEFENSE to Child Support charges. An allegation is all that matters. Charlie Chaplin PROVED that he was not the father via blood-type analysis, yet he was STILL help liable.
What area is that? Hallandale to Homestead?
got to agree with that..
It mentioned another guy who found out he was not the father of a young girl (12 years old) I don’t blame him for stopping support, but that man cut that child out of his life. Wow, that was cold. She also though of him as daddy. and now she has none. Yes, i know it’s the mother’s fault, but it’s the child who is hurting. I say he never loved her if he could just cut her off like that.
What are adopted children ... chopped liver???
We have DNA testing now, we need to make it the legal proof needed to establish paternity.
Perhaps the mother was a real b!tch. I say that as a mother myself, though not as a b!tch. Any woman who passes off a child to the wrong father has some problems to begin with.
When I hear about cases like this I am always amazed more Judges don’t get murdered.
Every once in a while you hear about some guy who thinks the system has screwed him shooting up a courthouse but it’s not as common as you would think.
But it is not my child!
yes, but it would be in her best interest if you paid her.
But I do not have that much money!
we will garnishee your paycheck until the debt is paid. it’s the right thing to do.
But my own children need shoes!
yes, well she needs shoes too. case closed. next...
Hold it....there is a father out there someplace....let the mother identify the man, and have him pay the price....
I would bet that the mother is on welfare and picking up support for her child from the state of Flori-duh. Flori-duh is trying to recoup its loss by going after this guy. (I’m not saying it’s right. In fact, it really puts to the test the “rule of law” principle that we adhere to. The law says he got notice and that he missed the deadline for contesting paternity. Therefore the “law” says that he owes the money. Of course, this is exhibit A for changing the law in light of DNA testing that can affirmatively prove or disprove paternity.)
My guess is that it would be a list, not a single man.
Folks, “It Takes a Village...”
I agree. That father is a POS for cutting of his relationship with the girl. He “had” to do it, he says.
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