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Your scenario almost happened to me last June. I received child support lawsuit papers from the City of Los Angeles. The biological father shared my first and last name, but not my middle name. The LA court has access to California DMV and Social Security databases. The information on the bio dad was incomplete, so they picked me randomly out of the DMV records. Shortly, I found that my information was plastered all over this investigators records. My employer had been contacted and my former residence identified. It took 6 weeks of data collection and long distance calls to disentangle this fraud. The name of the "respondant" on the suits was not my name, but all the information fraudulently gathered from California DMV and Social Security databases was my info. I could easily have ended up with forced child support payment for children of a woman I've never met, in a city I've never visited and at least one child who was a biological impossibility due to the consequences of my cancer treatments in 1985. The outrageous laws need to be fixed. No DNA match, no responsiblity...unless you have informed consent and intentionally adopt the non-biologically related child.

Wow. It's one thing to read about this in the abstract, another to have lived it, as you have. I read Bias recently, too.

So, any chance of turning the tables on Gil Garcete over this issue and getting him voted out of office? He's the DA who is ruthlessly pursuing these default judgements in LA, right?

Similar thing (didn't go quite as far) happened to me some 25 yrs ago, investigators were showing me pictures of the kids and everything, and my box full of threatening letters, and my MIDDLE INITIAL was different, and my LAST NAME also differed slightly.

yet there were demands I sign things, start paying, admit to child support (children did live there in the city where I was)-- EVEN THOUGH I HAD NEITHER BEEN IN, NOR EVER EVEN SEEN THAT CITY...at the time the children had been born there.

It took several irate screaming phone calls and nasty letters from me to get them to back off.

Your scenario almost happened to me last June

Tell Mamzelle. She didn't believe me when I told her it was possible.

Thank God it's never happened to me, but the fact that it could, is quite chilling.