Paternity Fraud Made Easy in Missouri
Once again, Missouri judges have ordered a man to pay for a child that is not his own. This time the mother has declared in court repeatedly that the man is not the father of her child. Yet a state agency says he is. The state wants this man thrown in jail, and an appeals court agreed. this man and others are caught in a national issue that pits fairness against the power of the state to avoid the expense of finding the real fathers of children.
On any given day millions of people watch sensation television where a dysfunctional woman and the pawns of their dysfunction are used to increase ratings. When it comes down to it, these children are the ones who will suffer in the long run. Nothing good comes from the display of a mother testing many men to find out who fathered her baby and forever follow the child.
Many men are trapped into paying child support because they either fail to contest paternity or are declared by the state administrativly. Unlike the Missouri Legislature several states have recently changed (or are considering changes) that allow men to introduce DNA evidence and bring truth back to the system. Several bills in the Missouri House and Senate would have allowed that here, but the assigned committees did nothing to bring this legislation forward.
In most states, a reputed father can be declared without his knowledge, making the very short time to contest useless. A period of one year is the standard in Missouri, Kansas, and many other states. Child support must be paid until children turn 18, or graduate from college. Judges typically follow a process designed to provide money from any man irregardless of who the real father is. This is tantamount to state sponsored paternity fraud.
If there is a requirement of paternity testing before any requirement of child support a great deal of expense, pain, and family disruption can be avoided. Also, this gives some women the chance take more responsibility for their actions. No longer will lies be able to hurt so many lives in the long run.
And by long run we mean a very long run. In one of these cases a Missouri Court found "…is now held to be the father of (the child) for all purposes and all time," , "despite both mother and father's statements to the contrary and without any determination of that relationship by a court of law."
It is unfair that a man has to pay for a child that is not his, regardless of true paternity a target is still required by law to support the children even if he did not father them. It is obvious that in Missouri paternity fraud is rampant.
Often we hear about dead beat dads and womens rights.But what about responsible men who want to do the right thing? Where are the rights for these men? Along with mandatory paternity testing their should be a mandatory law stating that the woman should pay back the child support received over how ever long period the time due to the fact that the child/children are not his.
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I am actually a victim of paternity fraud in Missouri. When I was married, my wife spent her time cheating on me while I was in the Army. She ended up pregnant. I had no reason to believe the child wasn't mine because I didn't know she was cheating at the time. Shortly after the child was born, we divorced due to numerous reasons,including very suspicious activity, like staying out all night.
While searching through belongings to sort them out, I found a love letter. Being a full-time student at the time, and no longer in the Army due to a disability, the divorce was a very hard financial hit. I had to take what I could get. I brought up a paternity test, but I lacked the funds to go forward with anything. Basically my attorney asked her attorney if I was the father, and of course, she said yes, so apparently that was good enough for the judicial system.
A few years later, as the child grew and changed, my mother became very suspicious at how she looked nothing like me. My mother had a DNA test done with a secure sample from the child and myself. The result came back that I am not the father.
We confronted my ex-wife about it and she screamed, pulling at her hair all while denying it. I contacted an attorney in Missouri and explained my case. I was told that no judge in the bible belt is going to declare a child fatherless, so I am stuck paying for it.
Meanwhile, my current wife is depressed that we can't afford a child of our own because I am being defrauded by my ex-wife and the state of Missouri by having to pay for my ex-wife's promiscuous fling. Meanwhile, my ex-wife has already had my child support raised. This process took a year to complete. When the raise was finally awarded to her, it was calculated retroactively based on the date she filed for the increase, and I was suddenly a year in arrears. My ex-wife is attempting top get it raised again. On her Facebook page, she announces to everyone what a deadbeat dad I am.
This is totally unfair, I am not the father. It is ruining things with my current wife, I want to just stop taking all the antidepressants and take my motorcycle off a cliff. Why is she allowed to get away with fraud, and why is the state of Missouri helping her?
We just finished a Missouri child support case under new Senate 141. It was fairly simple and did it without a lawyer. If you want any of the forms we had to use to complete it – JUST LET US KNOW!!!! You only have until Dec of 2011 to do this!
Oh email me at yvonne@freedomtaxcenters.com You need to create petitions and forms and a lawyer will charge thousands.. I will gladly give them to you
I Would realy love to have those paper im going thew this now im close to jail as it is with need help im in alabama but the caes is in MO. alabama want to put me in jail please help no were else to tune thanks..
I to, am haveing that problem, the child in question is not mine, and the sate does not seem to care, even tho, she has told me, he is not mine, but she keeps telling the state otherwise. grinding in teh fact that she said in open court all she really wants is the money, at this point, and for me to sign all my rights away, but she wants all the money first, I think that 141 would help my case, and I can not afford to pay thousands of dollors to a lawyer, the forms might help me alot, thank you in advance!
I am a paternity fraud victim in Arkansas in a simular situation.