Protecting Fathers Rights In Cohabiting Relationships

By Matt Allen Editor, DadsDivorce.com There are now more children who live with unwed, cohabiting parents than with divorced parents and that affects fathers rights to child custody, according to a recent report. The National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values reports there are 12 times as many …

Am I Responsible For A Child Born During Our Separation?

Paternity Law Question: How does paternity law address situations where a wife gives birth to another man’s child while still married to her husband? I have been separated from my wife for three years, but we are not legally divorced yet. She is pregnant with another man’s child and will …

Child Custody Laws: Preventing Your Ex Spouse From Moving

Question: Do child custody laws allow the mother to move the children out of state without the father’s permission? The mother of my children informed me she is moving in a month to another state and that there is nothing I can do to stop it. I have been involved …

Paternity Law: Can Genetic Testing Be Forced To Establish Paternity?

Question: I would like to get child custody of a child I believe is mine. The child’s mother doesn’t want me to do a paternity test for whatever reason. Is there a paternity law that allows for me to force her to take genetic testing to prove who is the …

Statute of Limitations To Establish Paternity In Child Support?

Jennifer Hankinson Dallas Divorce Attorney

Question: My question is about paternity law and child support. A woman I had a brief affair with 15 years ago is now claiming that I am the father of her child. She is recently divorced from the man the child has known as “dad”, and now this woman is …

Are Existing Obligations Considered In New Support Orders?

Question: How do child support laws work if I already have orders from two different states and am now being sued for child support for a third child? I am the father of a child who the mother had while she was married to another man. They have since divorced …

Paternity Law: Splitting Twins Up In Child Custody Agreements

Question: I have a very unique and complex paternity law case and am wondering how child custody laws apply. I am the biological father of one twin girl and another man is the biological father of the other twin girl. I would like to gain child custody of my child. …

Paternity Law: Establishing Paternity For Visitation Rights

Question: I really need some advice on paternity law. I recently found out I am the father of a child with an ex-girlfriend. We have not gone through the courts or anything to set up child custody agreements because we were both cooperating with parenting time. However, she has now …

Is A Pregnant Woman Required To Inform The Father?

Question: If a woman becomes pregnant, is there a paternity law that requires her to inform the child’s biological father? I suspect my ex-girlfriend is pregnant with my child, and I would like to reach a child custody agreement with her. But she has never confirmed her pregnancy and is …

Paying child support when not the biological father

Question: How do child support laws work when going through a divorce and I am not the biological father of my wife’s child though she gave birth while we were married? My wife had the child with another man, but our son knows me and considers me to be his …