It is the ancestry, and not the name, which matters.
Your custodial parent can collect unpaid support that accrued under an order. Support sometimes continues after the child becomes an adult if the child is disabled.
You cannot collect child support from 40 years ago. The statute of limitation has long passed.In Illinois at least, there is no statute of limitations on unpaid child support relating to an existing order.
Yes, but it might take a court order. Single fathers have no rights to see the child without an order, plus if a child support order is not in place, you better get it done. see links
no, because they have no reason to believe the parent in question is not paying.
If she's kept the claim current.
The child support is an order given by a judge in a custody settlement. It has nothing to do with bankruptcy. You are still responsible financially for a child you help to bring into this world.
Contact Texas Fathers For Equal Rights for the answer, see link below.
The child support amount would depend on the difference in income. Even sole custody fathers are ordered to pay child support.
Yes, or he should. It's not legal to pay outside a court order. I teach fathers to never do this.
If the amounts paid are over and above the amount due in a child support order it would be considered a gift to the child's mother. If there is no existing child support order you should make payments by check. If the mother eventually seeks a child support order the court can go backward to collect child support that should have been paid. If you have proof of payments they will result in a credit.
First, it is an Urban Myth that fathers go for custody to avoid paying child support. First, who would support the children while in his custody? Less then 15% of mothers are ordered to pay, and depending on circumstances, the custodial father is often still ordered to pay child support.
This will be successful only if the child is severely handicapped.