Is the man entitled to pay child support if he marries a women with kids from another marriage, if they end up in a divorce?
2007-02-23 09:47:39 · 18 answers · asked by alter_ego 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
You do not have to pay child support for children that are not legally yours.
If you adopt them, you will be obligated to pay.
If you are just a step parent, you wont.
Here's some sites for step families and coparenting... you may want to look into this some more...
2007-02-23 12:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jennifer Anne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really sympathized with you until you called him an unfit motherf*cker. The most important thing you still have to learn is that you made a poor choice when you decided who would father your child. Now you need to facilitate a relationship between that man and your child, for her sake. Unfit means something real by definition, in court. In CA, smoking weed doesn't seem to be a problem. He very well may be unstable. That isn't illegal. You should have asked him to pay for something that applied to the child. Paying your phone bill is ridiculous. Yes, go to court and get what you are entitled to. He could get full visitation now, and there's nothing you can do to stop that. Don't live in fear that he'll ask. He either will, or he won't. Ask for what you need to get by. Go to the state and ask for every benefit they have to offer you. They will get the money back from him, too. It might affect the total amount of cs you get, though, so get your facts in order. I know you're mad, but this situation with your child is of your making. You could have chosen a better man to father that child. Accept it, and do the right thing for your child now.
2016-05-24 03:33:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are only required to pay child support for your own children. If you marry a woman and it doesn't work out, you would not have to pay child support, unless you legally adopted her children.
2007-02-23 09:51:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you marry a woman that already has children you are NOT responsable for child support if you break up, they are not your biological children.
The only way you would be responsable is if you marry her and adopt the children as your own.
If you adopt them, they become yours and then you would have to pay child support for them, since you took on that responsability.
2007-02-23 09:53:33 · answer #4 · answered by Mr R 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unless you adopt her kids, you won't be held liable to pay her one cent for child support if the marriage doesn't work out.
2007-02-23 09:56:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No not if they are not his kids their real dad has to pay child support but if you adopt them you will have to pay.
2007-02-23 09:51:29 · answer #6 · answered by Mary O 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if the child is not yours and you did not adopt him/her than no you dont have to pay child support.
2007-02-23 09:55:15 · answer #7 · answered by Troubled 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No..only if he adopts them and the legal father signs his right away
2007-02-23 09:51:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only if you adopted the children.
2007-02-23 09:51:54 · answer #9 · answered by Jill R 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
why would you even consider marrying someone with kids?
the divorce rate for such arrangements are insanely high
besides what benefit would you get out of it? she is the one who fully benefits, not you, she is looking for sureity, you are nothing more than financial security for her
2007-02-23 09:53:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋