Man gets child support repaid. Kid wasn't his.
This is off, way off, my usual topics but my sister sent it to me and it is such a rare event it merits mention. Typically, when men find out a child they are paying support to isn't theirs, the court says, "So sad, too bad. Keep paying" which always struck me as outrageous. This is the FIRST incident with this outcome that I've heard.
Judge David Roper said he felt badly for Kenneth Samuels when he learned the child he had fathered for 11 years wasn't his.
Justice was also shortchanged, the judge said, because Mr. Samuels had been paying child support all of those years.
Last month, Judge Roper ruled that Jamie Hope, the child's mother, and Oba Wallace, the child's biological father, would have to repay Mr. Samuels $14,460 in child support he had paid since 1997.
Such an order is unusual, but not unique.
"We have seen it happen before," said Sandra Jarrett of the state's Child Support Recovery Unit. I haven't. Especially if the couple is married the assumption of paternity is automatic. I think all newborns should have a DNA test, it would cut down on a lot of needless heartache later.
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Comment by riffran— 2008/03/07 @ 03:16 AM — (Reply)