Paternity Fraud Made Easy in Missouri
Once again, Missouri judges have ordered a man to pay thousands of dollars in child support for a child he didn’t father. This time even the child’s mother agrees the man is not the father. Yet a state agency says he is. The appeals court agreed with the state that this man should be thrown in jail. This man and others like him caught in a national issue that pits fairness for men against what is considered best for 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, it’s the children who suffer in the long run. Nothing beneficial can come out of the display of a mother testing 5 or more men to determine who fathered her baby, this is something that will forever follow the child.
Many men nationwide get trapped into paying child support because they do not contest paternity before state-set deadlines. Unlike the Missouri Legislature several states have changed or are considering changes that allows innocent men to defend themselves with DNA evidence. Various bills in the House and Senate of Missouri would allow that here, but have been ignored by the governing bodies.
In most states, a reputed father can be declared without his knowledge, making the very short time to contest useless. In Missouri and Kansas, that period is one year. Child support is usually required to be paid until the child turns 18, and in most cases til they graduate college. Judges follow a legal process clearly designed to disregard who the real father is and require anybody but the real father to provide for the children. 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 opportunity to take responsibility for their actions. No longer will lies hurt so many lives for so long.
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.
So often were hear about women rights, and dead beat dads.But what about the men who do the right thing and want to be responsible? 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.
