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If I'm not with the father and he's refusing to put his name on the birth certificate what do I do? Can I put it on there anyways and we take it to court?
He says he can charge me with fraud if I do is this true?
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Just remember that if u get child support from him, he WILL have rights to your baby. Some states make couples split the time up 50/50 between parents.  I'm not putting my child's father on the birth certificate or going after him for child support because I don't wanna share her with someone who isn't fit to be a father. That's just me :)
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I have a 3 year old little girl and her father wants nothing to do with her and has never met her. He wasnt even in my state when I delivered so I didnt put him on ANY papers. I got government help and they ordered a dna test and once they proved it was his daughter they made him pay back child support from the day she was born.. the name on the birth certificate isnt what matters its the dna that does. Good luck hun!
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Thank you
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It's not fraud if you put it on there. Fraud would be doing that in order to get child support, but knowing he wasn't the father. Just get a paternity test. If he refuses one, then go to court. You won't be in trouble for anything either way. Good luck
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Nope. They will just do a paternity test and he will have to pay childsupport specially if he isn't seeing the child often or paying for anything. I would not her putting him on the birth certificate I would just make him take a paternity. You go through child support office.
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7552771 tn?1469929649
Nope. But they will DNA test him first. But they will court order it. Then when the results come in they will put him on child support. On top of it file for full custody.
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So his name doesn't have to be on the birth certificate to take him for child support?
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7552771 tn?1469929649
You don't have to put it on there. You should just take him to court for child support.
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He thinks I cheated on him when I didn't and when I left him I moved 3 hours away and he said he didn't want to pay child support for a baby he will never see :/
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He thinks I cheated on him when I didn't and when I left him I moved 3 hours away and he said he didn't want to pay child support for a baby he will never see :/
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Why would you even want someone like that on the birth certificate. Your baby deserves way better.
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