Mothers Forced to Repay Money They Defrauded out of Duped Dads

MensNewsDaily.com ^ | November 12, 2008 | Glenn Sacks

[RogerFGay]

"Mothers are being forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars to men who paid child support over decades but were wrongly named as fathers....Ken Rodgers obtained orders for the repayment of $60,000 after making child-support contributions for a decade to a woman who refused to send him even a photograph of his alleged child...

"The money is being garnished from mothers' incomes in the same way that payments are taken from fathers."

Some good news, particularly given how badly paternity fraud cases usually go. ... read more

[An American In Dairyland]

If a woman isn’t adult enough to know that when she commits a fraud she may well be legally punished for it, then she shouldn’t have custody of a child or children in the first place. Adults all know that to break the law is to risk legal penalties. You apparently are saying women are exempt from being adults.

[nclaurel]

No I think bitterness is shading what you read. Women are adults and b@tched, moaned and whined to be equal. Since they have heretofore gotten away with this fraud, saying that it should be said up front that it is fraud and will be prosecuted would mean “don’t come back with excuses or whines”. My issue is many DON’T think it is fraud and what I was saying is that must be clear/known/understood upfront along with all penalties! As a female, thankfully to old to get in that situation, I am old enough to have heard every excuse in the book from women and they think it justifies their actions.

Sadly they aren’t alone in thinking they can do whatever. It is just that lying about paternity has actually not been handled as the insulting, violating crime it is unless you happen to have been caught in it.