The legal reasoning is that child support is a right of the child rather than the parent, and as such any contract by the parent waiving it is invalid. I can't speak for Sweden, but US courts have upheld the principle on numerous occassions.
One more reason why I will never be a sperm donor.
Men in NJ have been found liable for support even for children that have been proven to not be their children.
"The legal reasoning is that child support is a right of the child rather than the parent, and as such any contract by the parent waiving it is invalid. I can't speak for Sweden, but US courts have upheld the principle on numerous occassions."
Yes, it's the right of the child. That's why the non-related lesbian should have to pay child support. I was under a different impression, though admittedly a very vague one, about the rights of sperm donors in the U.S. I mean, I realize it's not good to have a fatherless household, but forcing this guy to pay won't change that; all it will do is screw over this guy who made clear from the very beginning what he was doing. He might be a liberal douche, but that doesn't change the financial responsibility of the lesbian who was with the mother at the time.