[VOA]

What is this, a tax on sex? Punishment for knowing this woman?

Probably not.

In Los Angeles, if you are a male named as the father of a child
and you don't respond to a summons for a hearing on the matter...
good chance you'll get a default judgement and end up paying for the next
18 years.
Even if the kid is not yours.

[Vigilanteman]

If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor. And the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience. (Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist)

[janetgreen]

In Los Angeles, if you are a male named as the father of a child and you don't respond to a summons for a hearing on the matter... good chance you'll get a default judgement and end up paying for the next 18 years. Even if the kid is not yours.

I remember seeing then-D.A. Gil Garcetti on TV talking about this, and he was smiling about it, looking very proud of himself that this unjust law exists in CA. It was sickening.