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Originally posted by ARTelevision
The family courts will have to assign legal fatherhood in this case and really in all cases - they're all about that - especially in support-related cases. I don't see any way around it. I spent a lot of years involved in child-custody stuff and you don't want to get me started on that - especially the way fatherhood is...um, treated by the family courts. But I can see this sort of thing as inevitable.
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I assume you mean that the father is held responsible for nearly everything, even if he doesn't appear to be.
I have to say that I'm biased in the other direction, because my parents divorced 7 or 8 years ago, and my dad was given a reasonable child support and custody package. He is an attorney, and he makes a reasonable income, and the child support he was going to have to pay for myself and my younger sister was well within his budget. However, it was supposed to be paid on a monthly basis, and after all these years he's paid his monthly requirement roughly 3 times. My mother is a high school teacher, and she certainly cannot afford to support her children alone, but the courts haven't seen fit to force my father to pay. As such, my mother is selling her house, and she now has 3 part time jobs to try to stay afloat.
Man, those family courts sure do put too much burden on the father. [/sarcasm]