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No. A child cannot file a lawsuit. It needs to be brought on his behalf by a legal guardian. However, child support is an issue between parents. It is not paid to the child. The mother should bring the suit.

No. A child cannot file a lawsuit. It needs to be brought on his behalf by a legal guardian. However, child support is an issue between parents. It is not paid to the child. The mother should bring the suit.

No. A child cannot file a lawsuit. It needs to be brought on his behalf by a legal guardian. However, child support is an issue between parents. It is not paid to the child. The mother should bring the suit.

No. A child cannot file a lawsuit. It needs to be brought on his behalf by a legal guardian. However, child support is an issue between parents. It is not paid to the child. The mother should bring the suit.

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No. A child cannot file a lawsuit. It needs to be brought on his behalf by a legal guardian. However, child support is an issue between parents. It is not paid to the child. The mother should bring the suit.

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Could the mother of illegitimate child file a case against the father who's not supporting their son since birth?

Yes.


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What if father wants to be in the child's life does he have to pay child support?

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Can illegal immigrant mother living in Arizona collect child support from US citizen father with joint custody?

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Child is 18 parents never marry does father still have to pay child support?

The father of the child is responsible for supporting the child until it is at least 18 and through high school. Usually a court order sets the amount. The only possible exceptions would be if the support is not ordered or if the child is adopted by someone else.


Which court would handle a case of a father not supporting his child?

Child support is in family court systems.


In the state of California can a step father sue the father for supporting his child?

No, only the mother can. On the reverse, should the father be able to sue the stepfather for aiding the mother in alienation the child from the father?


What would cause a father to loose his rights to his child?

Too much drinking and lack of supporting of his family will lead to a father to loose his rights to his child.


Does a father have to pay child support if a child is 16 but no longer in education?

Yes, unless the child is "emancipated' (i.e., self-supporting).


How can you stop a child support case?

Show the court that: you are not the father; you are living with and supporting the child (either with or without the other parent); or the child is deceased.


Can you get a restraning order against your step-father?

It's legally possible. Whether it will be given in any particular case depends on why the child is asking for it.


Does the father have legally help with supporting the child?

I'm not sure what you're asking the way your question is worded, but if you mean does the father have a legal obligation to support their child, yes they do.