if you are married to someone at the time, they cheat on you and have a baby by someone other then yourself, and the blood test comes back stating that you arent the biological father of the child, does that mean that you are still the responsibility of the child? By the state of Ohio. And if so, then what happens if you were to get a divorce, is the child still your responsibility?
2007-09-04 06:09:01 · 4 answers · asked by angelagilbert83 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
If you are married the child is presumed to be yours. They won't let you divorce in Ohio if the wife is pregnant.
If you care for a child and later find out it is not yours and divorce, Courts have ordered the man to pay child support because it is "in the child's best interests".
You do not want to be in a situation like you describe in Ohio, or probably anywhere. It will me a messy situation and either way it won't be cheap for the man.
2007-09-05 14:07:30 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither answer was correct.
Presently, the child is considered legally to be a 'child of the marriage'. Unless you divorce and advise the court that a paternity test is required to disestablish paternity (or do so immediately within 30 days of the live birth and without signing the acknowledgement of paternity) then you give up your right to disestablish the paternity of the child.
So, what is the real story?
2007-09-04 14:31:09 · answer #2 · answered by hexeliebe 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ohio has (or at least had) strange laws about this. When i lived there, any children conceived while you were married to the person, are your resposibility. Divorce would not change this.
2007-09-04 13:13:46 · answer #3 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The child is not your responsibility unless you legally adopt it
2007-09-04 13:15:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋