Legalized Family Fraud in Missouri

Again, Missouri Judges have declared that a man who is not a childs father must pay child support anyway. The childs mother in this example has stated repeatedly that the man is not the father. Yet a state agency says he is. An appeals court sustained the states desire to lock this man in jail. this man and others are caught in a national issue that pits fairness against the power of the state to avoid the expense of finding the real fathers of children.

On any given day millions of people watch sensation television where a dysfunctional woman and the pawns of their dysfunction are used to increase ratings. When it comes down to it, these children are the ones who will suffer in the long run. Nothing beneficial can come out of the display of a mother testing 5 or more men to determine who fathered her baby, this is something that will forever follow the child.

Many men nationwide are trapped into paying child support because they either are declared such administratively, or do not contest paternity. Unlike the Missouri Legislature a growing number of states have changed laws so they now allow innocent men to use DNA evidence to clear their names. Various bills in the Missouri Senate and House would have allow that here, but these bills never got out of committee.

In most states, a reputed father has a short time to contest and can actually be declared the parent without his knowledge. A period of one year is the standard in Missouri, Kansas, and many other states. Child support must be paid until children either turn 18, or graduate college. Judges typically follow a process designed to provide money from any man irregardless of who the real father is.  This is tantamount to state sponsored paternity fraud.

If there is a requirement of paternity testing before any requirement of child support a great deal of expense, pain, and family disruption can be avoided.And this also gives some women the opportunity to take more responsibility for their actions. No longer will lies hurt so many lives for so long.

And the long run is very long indeed.  In one of these cases a Missouri Court found "...is now held to be the father of (the child) for all purposes and all time," , "despite both mother and father's statements to the contrary and without any determination of that relationship by a court of law."

It is unfair that a man has to pay for a child that is not his, regardless of true paternity a target is still required by law to support the children even if he did not father them.  It is obvious that in Missouri paternity fraud is rampant.

So often we hear about dead beat dads and womens rights.But what about men who are both responsible and want to do the right thing? Where are the rights for these men? Along with mandatory paternity testing their should be a mandatory law stating that the woman should pay back the child support received over how ever long period the time due to the fact that the child/children are not his.