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  • I dont know.... I think that he would still be considered the father, cuz he would have been a father figure to the child since it was born and never questioned it befor. Well I live in Canada and here if a man acts as a father to your child well living under the same roof for more then 6 months you can split up and have him pay child suport even though the child is not his, all he has to do is act as a father.
  • unfortunately i dont think so because the affidavit of parentage was signed at birth as well as the birth certificate so that automatically states that man is taking responsibility. he could for sure fight it..and maybe get the money back, but 12 years is a long time...and im sure a bond has formed...and i dont know what man would just destroy a child like that..a child deserves to know biological father...but if raised by someone for 12 years then to find out they resent the support they provided is just ugly
  • I'm not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that the legal father of the child is the husband of the mother even if the DNA proves different.
  • Let e put it this way: even he proves he is not the biological father (and wins the point) and then successfully sues for the money back (scoring another point), what happens to the child's feelings of worth? That is more valuable than actually being a biological parent and indeed than all the money in the world. Take away that from a child, and it has lost everything. Whoever it is, let them still be father to that child. They are the only father they have ever known.
  • He won't get any money back, no way!
  • depends...if he has been taking care of this child for 12 years, i think its pretty heartless to ask for it all back just because the kid dosent share his genes.... Even if the kid isnt his geneticaly...its his emotionaly..... I dont understand abandoning a child you have been parent to for 12 years because of that. Thats not a good reason for the father to suddently not want the child anymore. Then again, it depends if he has ever loved the child as his own.
  • No Providing Relief for Some Men Paying Child Support On Non-Biological Children http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/news/paternity-fraud.html
  • No. In every single state (assuming you're in the U.S.) there is a presumption in the law that a woman's husband is the legal father of her child. If this situation has happened to you, I'm sorry. But please bear in mind that this child is an innocent party here -- and I would hope that you've been a good father over the years. Think about what signal this would send to the kid, who did not ask for any of this.

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