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Paternity Case Marks Progress for Defrauded Fathers
Fox News ^ | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 | By Wendy Mcelroy

Posted on 09/07/2005 1:51:51 PM PDT by MRMEAN

On Aug. 31, a small but precedent-setting case was decided in the Superior Court of New Jersey. The plaintiff discovered he was not the biological father of his eldest 'son', now in his 30s. The court affirmed the duped dad's legal right to sue the natural father for the cost of raising the 'child' and removed some limitations imposed by a lower court.

The precedent: for the first time, New Jersey has extended a clear statutory deadline for filing on paternity cases. For the first time, a biological parent may be forced to pay child support for an offspring emancipated over 15 years ago.

The significance: family courts are beginning to reflect a growing impatience with paternity fraud; perhaps this is in reaction to a shift in societal attitudes.

Predictably, the pathbreaking New Jersey decision raises more questions. For example, if a deliberate fraud was perpetrated for 30 years by both the biological mother and father, why is only the father held liable?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: dna; paternity; paternityfraud
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To: raisincane
look....he can go for visitation or joint custody.....all is not lost if you get a nice grandchild out of it...

its a two way street.....if the courts order him to pay, then he has the right to help parent the child........

you see, there is a whole lot of ramifications about children.....

personally, I would love to "find" a grandchild somewhere to love....my kids aren't producing yet.....

I even had these terrible evil thoughts that maybe my son would meet a woman who already had kids and I would have instant grandchildren......LOL

21 posted on 09/07/2005 3:54:28 PM PDT by cherry
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To: dennisw
If a guy doesn't think he is the father, then I say...go for it....prove you're not.....

give up the love of that child......

OTOH.....it says something about men who have to prove in the labortory that they are not the father,doesn't it......it says that they don't KNOW FOR SURE and that indicates they have been screwing around without contraception and probably without true love....

it all goes back to morals.......you take your chances when you decide that morals don't apply to you.....

find a true companion, get married, and stay married.....its the best way, whether you believe in God or not....

22 posted on 09/07/2005 3:58:34 PM PDT by cherry
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To: MRMEAN
Going after the mother would probably be tough in most cases."I was having a physical relationship with both "Bill" and "Fred" at the time...."Fred" told me he was sterile so I assumed that "Bill" was the father"

How do you go about proving her statement to be a lie?

23 posted on 09/07/2005 4:02:55 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Arthalion
I'll bet your friends actions did a world of good to the kids, now didn't it.....

I've just got to say if some men would stop trying to meet and have sex with women they meet in strip clubs, or women that drink or do drugs as heavy as they do, or women that have as loose morals as they do, then marriage and children would not be a problem....

if you shack up with a drunk, a druggie, a cheap trashy "looker" ....which is why men go after them....then what do you expect them to turn out to be?.....

you can't change men and you can't change women.....

24 posted on 09/07/2005 4:04:40 PM PDT by cherry
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To: dennisw

Have you been watching Maury?


25 posted on 09/07/2005 4:08:05 PM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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To: cherry
find a true companion, get married, and stay married.....its the best way, whether you believe in God or not....

I don't always agree with you, but you have it nailed on this thread. Heck, some people take more care picking a restaurant that a mate.

26 posted on 09/07/2005 4:12:24 PM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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To: Arthalion

In some states (Massachusetts being one),when you're in
this kind of situation it's not the guy and the gal that go at it in court,it's the guy and the state.So the thought
of wearing her down probably wouldn't work.


27 posted on 09/07/2005 4:14:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: cherry

Get real. When female cheaters (cuckolded) get outed by DNA tests its a great day. Women will have to adjust to this new reality of DNA testing and that men won't be paying for children made by other men. That's the duty of the guy that the wife or girl friend had fun in the sack with.


28 posted on 09/07/2005 5:15:00 PM PDT by dennisw (***)
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To: TheOtherOne

no


29 posted on 09/07/2005 5:15:20 PM PDT by dennisw (***)
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To: MRMEAN
I can't believe that basic fairness has prevailed in this case.

The Nazis from NOW will surely be displeased.

30 posted on 09/07/2005 5:21:27 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: MRMEAN

These are the situations that wind up with the expectant mother getting murdered. It's a solution to 18 years of paying for a fling.


31 posted on 09/07/2005 5:39:28 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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