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PSA: Website explaining how Paternity gets established. Don’t voluntarily sign a paternity document unless you are 100% certain. If you sign it, it can be legally binding and you will have to pay child support until you can prove the child isn’t yours.

summonblood

December 1, 2018

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Title	PSA: Website explaining how Paternity gets established. Don’t voluntarily sign a paternity document unless you are 100% certain. If you sign it, it can be legally binding and you will have to pay child support until you can prove the child isn’t yours.
Author	summonblood
Upvotes	34
Comments	11
Date	December 1, 2018 4:10 PM UTC (7 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/a247vz/psa_website_explaining_how_paternity_gets/
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[–]summonblood[S] 14 points15 points16 points 7 years ago (10 children) | Copy Link

[–]bloopbloppers 2 points3 points4 points 7 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

[–]summonblood[S] 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

[–]AnonDidNothingWrong 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

Doesn't matter if you can prove it in my state. If you sign the birth certificate, that's it.

You (and her) are required to provide for the child until it's 18. If you and the female split up, you and her get joint custody. She'll win physical custody because courts always side with the woman (always) UNLESS there's reason for the court not to. This can be she moves all the time, drugs or alcohol, run-ins with the law, mental disorder, ect.

You'll then be required to pay child support and probably have to provide insurance for the child. You get visitation rights that can't be taken away from you.

She can't give it up for adoption. She can't move out of state with the child. When it comes to medical decisions, the mother has no more rights than that the father has.

Signing the BC is a binding contract. You agree to always provide for the child and the state agrees that you'll always have a right to see and raise the child.

[–]jp_mra 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

[–]AnonDidNothingWrong -1 points0 points1 point 7 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

[–]jp_mra 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

[–]AnonDidNothingWrong 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

[–]jp_mra 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

[–]AnonDidNothingWrong 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

[–]jp_mra 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

It's incredibly common: https://www.google.com/search?q=accuse+father+of+abuse+for+custody I've read that lawyers even encourage women to do this. For example, no proof needed to file a restraining order in most states. Even if you win, restraining orders end up on your criminal record and is obtainable by employers.

I've also never heard of any woman actually going to prison for refusal to allow for visitation. I googled and only found one instance of a judge threatening to do it, then backed off: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2018/03/02/child-abuse-louisville-mom-jailed-girl-refuses-visitation-dad/382783002/

It's different per state, but it appears the worst a woman will experience is the court could grant full custody with the father: https://www.divorcenet.com/resources/child-custody/child-visitation/how-deal-ex-spouse-withholding-child-visitation

I've read countless stories of fathers going a decade or more without ever seeing his kids, saying the mother turned the kids against him.