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Ah America.
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
Sorry scratch that.
Ah America.
Land of the NOt So Free, Home of the Incompetant and Corrupt Government.
Clearly the first thing to do then is to request the affidavit of service.
This seems like a pretty low threshold for serving documents, considering that child support payments could be some $100,000 over 18 years. This isn't a small claims court case.
This is just one of the many benefits of replacing private morality with government mandates.
Who said slavery was dead?
He should start suing for custody of the child.
This farce of a law exists in California too. I can’t believe Oklahoma has this on its books, though.
It is not clear how Oklahoma could have obtained a default child support order against someone in prison. The order should be void.
I’m looking for the Freepers to show up here saying it’s this man responsiblity because he missed his trial date, even after he was exonerated of any parental involvement.
I hope the guy manages to somehow get out of this mess. What is just as ironic is that there are so many men out there who have kids that are not biologically theirs, but they have no idea. As someone once told me, unless you have very 'unique' features, or you do a DNA test, the only person who can be sure they are the parent is the mother.
“In child support cases, the burden of proof is on the alleged father — the accused — according to Oklahoma statutes.
An alleged father must appear at a child support hearing to request a paternity test. If he does not appear, he is legally designated as the father and child support is established in most cases.”
If this is the case, then what prevents the mother from just picking a name out of the phone book?
only in America where you present undisputed proof that you are not the legal father can this happen. the courts just want to wash their hands of it so the state doesn’t have to pay the woman to raise her child. just let some poor sucker pay the lyin woman and give her a free ride.
LA County prosecutor Gil Garcetti is famous for making non-parental fathers pay child support. Just having the wrong name is sufficient.
can’t let the facts get in the way of a good government sponsored lynching, now can we?
Man, I’m glad I’m out of those particular woods. It is not lost on me that he said the four years AFTER prison were the worst in his life.
Maybe the easiest solution is to rob a liquor store and try to stay in prison until the child is 18. ;)
You want justice? Ridiculous. You'll get none of that. You're just an ambulatory wallet to the family courts.
It is really past time to use a little common sense in these cases. If the man is proven to not be the father, he should be totally off the hook for child support.
At this point, the only way this will be fixed is to lobby to change the law in the states that do child support this way. These officials and courts will never back down on this unless a law forces them to.
As many of us know, it’s the division of child support enforcement, not justice.
The key is “force”.
Whatever the woman says goes.
First and best target for budget cuts -- 100%.
Thirteenth Amendment
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.