i am seven months pregnant & my boyfriend & i are breaking up.. i want to pursue child support..?

Question

but.. what rights does that entitle him too.?

he is very irresponsible.. cant keep a job.. has two other little girls and has cheated on me the whole last year..

Answer 1

Visitation, I would say first you would have to do a custody battle on who gets the baby first. Which probably would be you lets hope. Thats if he fights for rights. You can call a lawyer for free and ask them about it. Thats what I did. Good Luck!

Answer 2

To Sarah and Lil Bol...whatever. You two have obviously NEVER been through any kind of family law issue. Your info is inaccurate and ludicrous.

For the original poster... you need to go to the court and establish custody in order to obtain child support. You should do that ASAP. If he does not have a job he will be ordered by the court to get one. If he's one of those guys that cant hold down a job the support will accumulate and when he gos to file taxes everything he is suppose to get back will go to you. The IRS does keep track of this stuff and this guy will not receive a tax return till his support obligations are caught up on. Some states have a law that states that if the support paying parent is X amount of dollars behind in support their license will get suspended and or they will be arrested for not following a court order. Remember that child support is a RIGHT not a privilege, and the same gos for visitation. If your ex wants visitation and he's not paying support you should first report it to the court and the support collection department. If you deny visitation because of the lack of support payments you can get in trouble. Let the courts handle that. In the eyes of the court visitation is in the best interest of the child, and has nothing to do with support payments. Good luck and seek legal advice in regards to the laws which reside over family law in your state.

Answer 3

Well I went through this and it all depends on if he signs the birth certificate or not. If he doesn't he has no rights until one of you requests a paternity test. Once he's proven the father and is placed on the birth certificate you will both have equal rights until parental rights and responsibilities are done or a custody case depending on what you state calls it. Until you have a court order regarding custody of the child if he is on the birth certificate he has just as much right to possession of the child as you do. If you're really concerned about the type of man he is I would let him come after his rights.If he pursues you than he has something inside him worth your child knowing.

Answer 4

Yes, you are entitled to child support, all you need to do is go to an office that gives out medical, like a county office and let them know your situation. Either way, the state will give you money, even if they cannot find him or he does not have a job. It takes around three months to process and you have to do this after the baby is born. They will give the asshole a chance to pay up and if he doesnt, he will go to jail. He wont get out of it, i promise!! Good luck and stay healthy!

Answer 5

child support and visitation are 2 seperate things............. he is entitled fully to the child even if he doesnt pay a dime.....

I do believe all parents should pay 50%........... The child deserves it. if all paid their share the child would be 100% taken care of by the people who made them. I dont think one parent should sit on their but and pay nothing. It took 2 to make the child. I personally think its stupid to put them in jail..... they cant make any money in jail....

alot of men will work a low paying job to satisfy the court, and have low payments, then work under the table to make money that the court doesnt know about.

You cant get a penny until the child is here and DNA proves he is the father. If your on welfare THEY WILL run dna and push the court to get a support order.

It takes sometimes years to collect support.... just because you want it, and are intiteled doesnt mean you get it anytime soon................ There are alot of dead beat dads out there as well as deadbeat moms.....

Answer 6

First of all, you'll need to file for sole custody of the child in a court of law. Start looking for a good attorney now, one that you can trust.

Now, your boyfriend may go along with this willingly, and let you have sole custody. He might fight for joint custody (which sounds unlikely) or he might declare the baby is not his.

In the eventuality that he declares the baby not to be his, then the courts will issue him to take a paternity test. He will have no choice but to do so if you have filed for custody.

Any of these ways (obviously, he's the father) will eventually lead to the final decision on whether or not he has joint custody, or if you have sole custody, whether he gets visitation rights.

Visitation rights and child support are not dependent on each other. There are different hearings for them. Your lawyer should be able to help you file for child support.

These days the states see dead beat dads as terrible people, and they will get your money somehow. They have now even attached child support on to passports! That's right, dead beat dads who apply for a passport must first pay child support to bring them current. The state then sends the money to the families that need them, ie say you and your baby. And if you can believe, there are men who were told that they had to pay 50,000 dollars to get their passport, the money owed to the families.

So, the state will suck it out of him somehow, someway, sometime, even if he cannot keep a job. I wish you the best of luck!

Answer 7

if he cant keep a job, you wont get much child support, and you may have to give him weekend privliges, or in most cases like this, since he is not actualy a bad man (physical violence, ect) weekly rights. you sound like you would be best of to come to some kind of private arangement, where maybe he will pay for all of your childs day care, school and kinder fee's and you can pay for the rest. i no that this may seem gratly unfair but this way you can send the little tacker to a private school and hewill be paying for it. just make sure that you right up a contract with him about this and each keep, a copy then give one to your parents, and his that way you have back up if something goes wrong. you may still have to allow him to visit, but specify it on the contract, as in "every 2nd tuesday"
cheers mate,
joel.

Answer 8

This is to ~Sarah~...Despite him being her "boyfriend".. he is still the baby's dad and he does have rights to the child unless it isn't his!!!!...I don't know where you get that!!!!!

Getting support from a parent here in Indiana, you take them to court.. if they don't have a job, they have to get one... My cousin has a little girl and he ows about $6000 in child support...the judge told him at his last court appearance that if he doesn't have a job by the end of November, he will go to jail......but if he does pay support, he will get rights to see his child....but you really should do all you can to get child support out of him.. he helped make that baby too!!

Answer 9

Well, You can take him to court for child support once the child gets here...

I do know that he can get visitation rights.... and he could try to go for custody. Most judges don't like giving the father custody without a job.

When u go to court they will set an amount for him to pay... if he doesn't pay, it will just keep building up. I know around here they are finally starting to put deadbeat dad's in jail.
When he gets a job they will attach his paycheck.

Good luck :)

Answer 10

he will have the same rights you do. when the baby is born and he takes it on a visit and decides not to bring the baby home he don't have to and you will have to file for custody to get the baby back. and you will have to file for support when the baby is born and i would suggest filing for custody at the same time so he can't take the baby. this is what i did. my sons father would say that if we ever broke up he wanted custody so he wouldn't have to pay so when we broke up the first thing i did was went to friend of the court and filed. and i was awarded custody without even having a hearing. and don't put his name on the birth certificate. if he is that irresponsible he wouldn't want anything to do with the baby anyway. but i would make sure he doesn't as soon as the baby is born. i hope everything goes as easy for you as it did for me. and one good thing if he can't pay his child support they will throw his *** in jail.

Answer 11

Well, if you just want the child support and he is very irresponsible..I wouldn't put his name on the birth certificate. That will give you the upper hand and gives you 100% control of the child. If you want child support, you will need to go to court and have him served for a dna test. Once it comes back positive, you can then ask for child support.