If the couple are unmarried paternity must be established before a child support petition can be filed. If the father refuses to take a paternity test the court can order him to do so. The matter of not knowing his last name is indeed troubling and may be reason enough for the court to deny any motion for testing or support. Contact the department of family and children's services or the state health and human services in the state of residency for assistance.
The man who signed the birth certificate is the child's legal father until/unless a court rules otherwise, and can be made to pay support.
No. However, if the alleged father has signed the birth certificate, he is acknowledging that the child is his. There are steps to take in order to be taken off of the birth certificate and relieved of the obligation of child support, including a paternity test and an amendment to the birth certificate.
The process to get the birth certificate changed, any custody orders and child support corrected, etc., will be different in each state. You may need to see an attorney who specializes in family law. Generally there will be petitions to family court to get everything straight. You will almost certainly need an affidavit signed by both 'fathers' and DNA testing to prove who is (and isn't) father.
Yes, but he will have to file a petition for visitation. He may also have to go through paternity testing to verify.
By court order, he can, if he's under a child support order.
Unlikely. Your husband is the legal father of the child.
he says i dont want your dam child
You will have to file with the original court to have the child support order lifted in light of the new evidence. In some states however if you were married and or signed the birth certificate you are legally responsible for the child regardless of biological relationship.
The man who signed the birth certificate is the child's legal father until/unless a court rules otherwise, and can be made to pay support.
Yes, unless the child has been adopted.
I think that a paper with a signature should not be powerful enough to separate a creature from its creator. In this case, a father and an offspring. Legally, the father of that child is the person that signed the birth certificate, so no, the biological father does not have a right. Although, if you can get some type of blood test, then with the results you might have a chance to fight it off in court!
No. However, if the alleged father has signed the birth certificate, he is acknowledging that the child is his. There are steps to take in order to be taken off of the birth certificate and relieved of the obligation of child support, including a paternity test and an amendment to the birth certificate.
The child's last name isn't relevant. However, once you signed the birth certificate, you became the child's father until/unless a court rules otherwise and, yes, you could get visitation.
It depends upon a lot of factors - where you live, rather or not the mother is agreeable to his name being placed on the birth certificate, if there is already a father listed on the birth certificate, if the mother was married to someone else at the time she gave birth, etc., etc.
By law, the "father" is the man who signed the birth certificate unless/until paternity is established in some other way.
Yes, but if you're not married to her, you have no rights to the child. see link
The process to get the birth certificate changed, any custody orders and child support corrected, etc., will be different in each state. You may need to see an attorney who specializes in family law. Generally there will be petitions to family court to get everything straight. You will almost certainly need an affidavit signed by both 'fathers' and DNA testing to prove who is (and isn't) father.