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October 28, 2007, 9:53 pm PDT
I agree With Colorado
Quote From: tkohara13Here in Colorado, unless one of the parents request DNA check early on in the proceedings, it doesn't matter if the child is his or not if he has been acting in the role of father. Also even if the test result come back that he is not the child's father, he may still be ordered to continue in the role of father and pay support or seek custody or whatever, he has rights. I think a lot of this would be determined on how old the child is at the time of the divorce, how long he has been in a position of a providing male figure model to the child. Imagine the other side of the coin? The man raises the child as his own, making that child part of his world. Suppose the wife suspected the child was not her husband's but did not tell him. Shameful, right? In a divorce should the wife be able to produce DNA evidence and exclude the man from the life of the child? Colorado's laws on this protect both parties and the child.
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