My husband was once involved with a woman who became pregnant during the course of their relationship (of course before I ever even knew him). The woman convinced him he was the father, never confessing that she had been sleeping with other people. Under this false pretense, my husband acknowledged paternity on the birth certificate, gave the child his last name, and started paying child support upon "his daughter's" birth. Then he started hearing stories about how she was sleeping with other people around the time she became pregnant. My husband then began to raise the issue of paternity in court, but was denied a DNA test because he had initially acknowledged paternity. After about 5 years, and $80,000 in child support, daycare costs, and legal fees, my husband was finally granted a DNA test, only to find out he was NOT the father. Now, even though he did acknowledge paternity on the birth certificate, he did so because he was defrauded into believing this child was his.
2007-05-28
21:02:32
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