Saturday, April 7, 2012

IF A FATHER IS PAYING CHILD SUPPORT, DOES HE HAVE LEGAL RIGHTS TO HIS CHILD?

QUESTION: Say a couple has been separated for two years, never married and they had a child together. The father of the child was 17 (now about to be 21) when the woman had gotten pregnant and she lives in another state. Now the women is looking for child support and all that, and it isn't a problem, but since he will be paying child support does he have LEGAL rights to his daughter? Will the mother now have to let the father see his daughter? If she doesn't, can there be something done so then he can see his daughter or can he possibly still get sole custody? Both parents are reliable people, but in different ways. With that I would just like to know the possibility of the father getting his daughter, even though he has been restricted with visitations, he is actually doing better off with his life than the mother and I personally believe is a better candidate.

MY RESPONSE: The father can and should seek legal rights to his child. He should bring a Paternity case in the state and county in which the mother and child reside, and seek his custodial and/or visitation rights in that case.

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