“If a man can prove by DNA that he is not the father, he should not be listed on the birth certificate.”
Unknown to me, I was listed on the birth certificate of a child whose mother I had never met; even gave the kid my name. She saw me in the newspaper giving a fair amount of money to a school and decided that she liked the looks of me, and that I was just the person to name as dad.
Found out about it when the kid was 4 or 5 and momma (a drug-addled drifter) went to jail and the State of Texas sought to collect child support from age 0 to 5 (and in the future) from me.
Cost a fair amount of money to remedy, got in the local paper, and Mrs. MWT was JUST SO pleased to be wakened by a Dep. Sheriff with a citation in his hand saying that I had run around on her.
What a fun time!
End of story: yes, this got fixed, with DNA test that I paid for. Part of the issue was, of course, the fact that this had been on file for 5 years -— “I should have acted sooner,” the State claimed -— like I go check the records of every kid born in the State of Texas.
BUT they kid still bears my name, and the birth certificate STILL lists me as the father. My wills and trusts take this into account.
All because a crack whore saw me in the paper.
In Arizona the man has to acknowledge or be proven the father (unless he’s married to the mother) before his name is on the BC. I can’t believe some ho can just pick a name out of a hat, and the state goes along with it. Have they changed that in Texas since this happened to you?
“kid still bears my name, and the birth certificate STILL lists me as the father”
Totally unfair to you AND to the child.
Your story doesn’t surprise me as it will most who read it. Few believe me when I say that ANY woman......ANYwhere........can name ANY man as the father, and the f**king State will use its resources to go after that....ahem....”deadbeat dad” on her behalf.
It’s true as hell, and anyone who tries to deny it can talk to you................or to me.
Without spending a s**tpot full of money, as you know, there isn’t a damned thing you can do about it, either. Welcome to the USSA.