[MotleyGirl70]

"You swore that he was the father when you took out a child support action," Judge Roper told Ms. Hope. He said he considered that action fraudulent and ordered Ms. Hope to repay Mr. Samuels the $14,460 he had paid in child support payments.

Good on ya judge.

$14,000 over 11 years

$106.06 per month

I did the math because I was curious.

[ClearCase_guy]

Mr. Wallace told the judge at a hearing last summer that he heard from different people that the child looked like him. The child called him daddy when she saw him in town, Mr. Wallace said.

That seems odd.

[EagleUSA]

Damn. A judge that gives a hoot about the law, and justice. A rarity these days.

[Hoodat]

This happened in a Georgia court? This reversal is truly a miracle of God. Now if we could only get the mother jailed for fraud. Until then, if she is late on a payment, a warrant for her arrest should be issued just as easily as it was for the plaintiff all those years.

[oldvike]

Poor kid. Too bad he has to be involved with all these skumbags.

[subterfuge]

Such an order is unusual, but not unique.

Wha?

[Eurale]

That’s what happens when you boink the same chick that everyone else is boinking.

[longtermmemmory]

unfortunatly every state is different.

In some states child support only starts once paternaty is established and support is first ordered.

Of course california has serious paternity fraud issues.

[Cicero]

I suspect this is unusual. I remember reading about a judge’s order of child support when it was KNOWN from the start that the child was not that of the ex-husband who was forced to pay.

But I don’t know which of these two sorts of decision is more prevalent.

[WOBBLY BOB]

“My baby’s daddy” ping.

[blam]

Let me guess...Mr Samuels is a Black male.
White males always get screwed.

[DoughtyOne]

Such an order is unusual, but not unique.

"We have seen it happen before," said Sandra Jarrett of the state's Child Support Recovery Unit.

Usually there is no intent to defraud, Ms. Jarrett said. Mothers who have had relationships with more than one man might not know who the biological father is without a DNA test.

We have seen it happen before?
Usually there is not intent to defraud?

Any guy in this situation that is forced to pay without a paternity test is being defrauded. He is being made to pay without due process. Courts are a party to it if they don't foce the test.

How many times have they seen this before? Once? Twice?

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking for when I get home from work.

[RandallFlagg]

BTW, I got $109.55 per month.
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neener-neener-neener
;-)

[maine-iac7]

Ya kinda gotta give kudos to the bio father - he didn’t have to step forward and initiate a paternal test to prove the child was his...and part of the reason he gave was that he felt bad that the other man had to be paying for a child that wasn’t his ... the man whose been paying all these years, willingly signed on for it in the beginning.

Sounds like the only ‘culprit’ here is the mother....and the child at least had two men willing to step up instead of screaming ‘that ain’t MY kid.’

[SlapHappyPappy]

When my ex-wife split from her prior husband the courts were amazed he didn’t insist on a paternity test before agreeing to pay child support. In fact they actively discouraged him from making the decision.

[Niteranger68]

Where are our resident FReeper idiots who believe the welfare of the child is more important than the right parent paying support?

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

might not know who the biological father is without a DNA test.

EVERY child support case should have, as its first step, a DNA test paid for by the parent who's about to get the financial windfall of probably alimony + child support.

Time to clear out this nest of snakes. Too much injustice done under the blindness of not knowing.

[MEGoody]

The saddest part of this kind of thing is the affect on the child. He/she ends up feeling like people care more about money than they do about him/her.

[zeugma]

Wish I only had to pay $106.06 per month. I’m being bled for more than 12 times as much. I pay more than $14k/year.

[NormsRevenge]

Paging Maury Povich ..

and Yes .. Good on that Judge.