if my wife has children from a previous marriage and we divorce do i pay child support for her kids?

Question

getting married to woman with children

Answer 1

No, unless you legally adopted them or sign a prenuptial agreement saying you will or something. Then your signature would be bound. The father is responsible for child support if he is not paying go through the courts.

Answer 2

First, a pre-nuptial agreement regarding child support is void on it's face and unenforcable. So that point is moot.

Secondly, the ONLY way you would be required by the court to pay support for a child existing before the marriage is if you adopted the child.

Another situation that occurs often (but seemingly not in your case) is in the even the woman is pregnant by one man and without knowing it (either party) marries another man within a month or two of becomming married.

The child, in this instance, is legally a child of the marriage and there is a very slim window of 60 days after signing the acknowledgement of paternity (in those states that allow such) to assert the right of recission.

Once that timelimt has passed, the child is a child of the marriage unless the mother or biological father asserts a disestablishment against the legal father.

There are other permetations but that's enough to chew on. In your particular situation, the answer is no.

Answer 3

Wasn't it last year that a case like this came out on the east coast and the since the man had acted as their father and their real father was not able to be located it was found in the best interest of the children that non-biological ex-husband have to pay child support for children that were not his and that he never adopted.
I agree that logically it makes little sense, but stupid things happen every day.

Answer 4

Your wife has this children from previous marriage, it means the children have a father ; which pays child support. Seek for legal advice.

Answer 5

The children's father should be paying child support wether or not mother remarried (but not alimony). It should never have turned off.

You will not be liable for child support for her children from another father. If she wants money for them, she has to go after the father.

She can contact the Child Support Enforcement unit in her State. All states are required by Federal Law to have a centralised system for CSE, which interacts with all other states, and makes enforcing child support easier than it has been in the past.

Answer 6

No the new spouse for either the father or the mother, does not at reflect in child support. If you marry a woman with kids,,they are not your legal financial respnsibility unless you formally and legally adopt them...you may wish sooner than you think that you could, I would gladly pay for my stepkids if meant i had legal rights to them if we ever got divorced

Answer 7

You are not obligated to pay child support for her children since you are not the father. However, if you decide to adopt them then yes you will have to pay child support if you were to divorce. Only how you will have to pay child support for her children is if you adopt them or you file for guardianship of some sort.

Answer 8

I should certainly hope not! That job is for the biological father to do!

As for your question though, I would suggest not planning your marriage based on what the outcome of a divorce would be. That is kind of like "expecting the worst".. Not a good way to go into it.

Answer 9

If you do not legally adopt them, you will not have to pay child support. So don't adopt them, because marriages in which one or both partners already have children almost always fail.

Answer 10

No, you would only pay child support for children that you have together. Her ex is responsible for the kids that she has now.