TL;DR you no longer need to have sex anymore to be obligated to child support. Scary shit.
I found this on Imgur and I'm just...wow.
I had a few people in another post ask for the details, so I guess I'll give this a whirl.
RE: http://imgur.com/gallery/Bg0zOXr/comment/505592663/1?lr=1446668746 TL;DR:
Women sue overseas military men for child support because the men either cannot defend themselves in court, or don't know about the lawsuit. I was sued 11 times for paternity. When I came home from Afghanistan in 2002, my bank account had been cleared out and my wages were garnished because someone I never met conceived a child in Ohio while I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. The family court informed me that it was my fault for not showing up to the court date (which I had no idea about because I was... well... not even in the US). Long story short I was able to re-open my case and flip the bill for my own DNA test which proved I was not the father; which in turn stopped the garnishment. Money already lost? It was my fault for missing the court date, they wouldn't give it back.
This was an expensive ordeal for me to solve, and involved a near miss courts-martial hearing. It is illegal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice to abandon your family (conduct unbecoming a Marine is broadly interpreted), so I had to get a Navy lawyer to defend me against that case. I had to take leave and fly to the US, hire an attorney to petition the state of Ohio to re-establish paternity of the kid. It is all so fucking dumb. Anyone with a brain could tell there was literally no way I could have been the father short of me having some super semen that flies thousands of miles on its own to impregnate unsuspecting mothers on different continents.
As for the paternity suits I know it wasn't just me. I was just unlucky with the number. Others commented/joked like "well you won't get a 'too many in the huddle' penalty yet. The fact is, the way family law is written a woman must provide 3 things to begin a paternity claim. Proof that: the mother/father know each other, the father was available at the conception, and something else I can't remember off the top of my head (This all happened over 10 years ago). In practice, however, these are completely ignored.
It turns out this is a fairly common scam, since so much about you is public record when you are enlisted. The state forces a woman to name a father in order for her to receive welfare assistance so that the state can recoup costs from someone. All that is required is sending a notification to the last known address (not a legal serving) to appear in court. It doesn't even have to be certified mail... so you really don't even need to bother with actually sending any notice. Win-Win for the state AND the mother is naming someone who is currently overseas in the military (which is public record to find suckers like this) and cannot know about the court case to even fight it. The state gets money, which they can justify bureaucratically to keep because hey... it's your fault you exist. The mom gets the state off her back, and with a court order can now clean out your bank account.
I understand why child support laws exist. The problem is that it is such an easy issue to demagogue “Deadbeat Dads.” Politicians rally around passing laws to crack down on deadbeat daddery, but the way these laws are applied create modern day debtors prisons. Once you are fingered as deadbeat dad, no one even gives a shit what the circumstances are.
Edit: Apparently people are calling B.S. on this. I got this off Imgur. A user named: Underscore55 posted it.
He says it happened in 2001.
http://imgur.com/gallery/GbaTmKX Feel free to message him if you want to verify it more. I just saw it and it pissed me off.
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