Florida man owes $10,000 for child who's not his

cnn.com ^ | 7/12/07 | cnn

[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.

[picard]

bingo

[Shimmer128]

I’m not talking about the money, but about being her father for 12 years and then closing off yourself off to her. I’m talking about loving the child that loves you as a father.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

But hey, the mother thought he was “egg worthy” which is many times the main factor of do they keep the baby or not, even if they are married to someone else at the time. It isn’t soo much a concern of the person he is, but what his physical attributes are (height & looks).
Who cares how many people might get hurt, including the child by these actions. The father of child was “egg worthy”. Don’t you get it? In a feminist society backed by the courts, marriage means nothing, its all about the feelings of the mother and what she wants at any given moment. Welcome to the “it takes a village” age.

[picard]

it is called “voluntary reduction in pay” you go to jail

child support is set at your current salary.

so let’s say they want 30% of 60 or 20 at the divorce.

if later on for whatever reason you make 40, you still must pay the 20 or 50% of your pay.

if you don’t, they can send you to jail, confiscate everything own as lien and sell it a auction.

bottom line is, unless you’re some kind of mormon or roman catholic, never never get a woman pregnant within the first 5 years of meeting her. that’s my rule anyway.

[Shimmer128]

Bastard can mean several things. One of which are people who post what seems like looking for an excuse to call other people “sluts” and “bastards”

[RabidBartender]

"Me, I'd give away my assets to family or friends, wait about 90 days and then refuse to work and go on welfare. Let's see them collect from that."

The courts have already thought of that. They'd issue a warrant for your arrest and send you to jail. Do it often enough, and it'll get kicked up to felony non-support. Totally unbalanced system.

[JamesP81]

He paid child support all the years despite believing she wasn’t his child. I said “you could get a DNA test”, he said he’d thought about it but no, she’s been his daughter since birth and he wouldn’t want to know if she’s not his. As far as he’s concerned, she is.

It doesn't matter if her genetic heritage is his or not. She is his daughter; he is her father. The rest doesn't matter.

[Shimmer128]

When my son was killed in a motorcycle accident last October,I got this phone call. This woman said she’d found me through the Social Security records, she was the mother of my son’s daughter.
She was going to be getting SS for the child, as it was his legal child and i never even knew. He’d been named as the father because he didn’t show up in court. Sounds fishy, but the mother said she wanted a DNA test for me to know for sure and my son had been there for the birth.
Then i saw pictures of the little girl. Oh my gosh. No DNA test was needed. She’s the image of my son (only prettier, she is a girl after all) :D
I’ve still never met her, but we will one day. I had four sons and three grandsons so far and now....a granddaughter. A gift.

[JamesP81]

the system is loaded against the male..

It would appear that the only effective 'protection' these days is 'abstinence'.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

That’s a very sad story about your son. I’m sorry for your loss. But if that child is his, its nice that a piece of him carries on in life and you have a beautiful granddaughter.

I’m sure there is a lot more to your son’s life than can be written here, but don’t you find it in anyway strange you never heard about this child, including the mother saying your son was there for the birth and all? That your son never mentioned to you that he had become a father?

It could very well be your son’s child, but just because it looks like him, doesn’t mean it is his. Are you ready to face a situation that a couple years from now, the child might start looking not like your son at all? This woman might of known your son and had relations with him, but I think you should still have a DNA test done.

I don’t think it would be out of the question for a DNA test, given the circumstances.

Again, very sad to hear about your loss. But if you have a new granddaughter, Congrats!!!!! ;)

[Shimmer128]

I know what you’re saying. But he did mention it, to deny it.
So i thought ok, there isn’t a grandchild there. She was a friend of his, i knew that about the mother. That’s all i heard.
And I’m satisfied. It doesn’t cost me anything, it’s not like she can get anything from me. Even in my will, I specifically excluded her from inheriting, not because I have anything against her, but because I have minor children to provide for.
When they grow up, i will change my will and remember her in it.
Incidentally, I am raising sons’s son, as my own and have been for the past 7 years. I handed the picture to him and my other son (ages 13 and 16) They were shocked and amazed at how much she looks like son’s elementary age pictures.

[Shimmer128]

And if i could only have one question answered I would say “why didn’t you tell me?????”
Thanks for your condolences.

[zeugma]

He need to check to when the child was born.

Like many men, he had no reason to think that a fraud was being perpetrated upon him.

These days, DNA paternity tests should be performed automatically just like tests for AIDS or other diseases are performed when a woman has a baby. The fact that it is not, is proof that the state isn't interested in the truth of the situation, and that they just don't care about this type of fraud by women.

[varina davis]

Unconscienable

[RatRipper]

” . . .its all about the feelings of the mother and what she wants at any given moment. Welcome to the “it takes a village” age.”

Kinda makes you want to call a “village gang-bang” doesn’t it?

[Just another Joe]

"This is a struggle. It's not something easy for courts or legislatures," she says.

Sure it's easy.
Are you the father proved by a paternity test?

Yes - pay the child support

No - no child support necessary

No paternity test? - take one.

[zeugma]

When I hear about cases like this I am always amazed more Judges don’t get murdered.

Every day that goes by without that happening is completely amazing to me. There is some serious institutionalized injustice going on out there. The fact that more don't die daily is because most people are basically decent people, and not the murderous freaks that proponents of gun control would have you believe..  

[Sloth]

He’s apparently acknowledged the child as his for a long time. His responsibility doesn’t change just because of a divorce and a paternity test.

What the hell article are you reading? Because it's sure not this one.

[dangerdoc]

This isn’t new. This is a throw back to common law when paternity could never be proven.

It’s a shame that our legal system refuses to keep up.

[thinking]

yes! the second rule is: never marry up or down, always laterally, if you have a degree, then she must have a similar education...if you make, say, 75 K, then she must make an equal salary...never put all your savings (?) into a house, the wealth that you have on entering marriage, is yours ( forever), that is until you buy a home, then it is gone....the lady has to put in 50% or stay in a rented apartment, until she has the 50%....