Timeline for Can I force my wife to have a DNA test on a child?
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| Nov 21, 2023 at 22:46 | comment | added | Michael Hall | @jww, "A blue-eyed baby was born to a couple with a man without blue eyes (genetically impossible)" Not true. The gene for blue eyes is recessive, meaning that if you inherit blue and brown you will express brown, but two parents, each with brown eyes and a recessive gene for blue, could each pass along their blue gene, resulting in a blue eyed child. At least that's what my wife told me when she birthed our blue eyed daughter... ;) | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 21:24 | comment | added | jww | OK, I did a little more digging. I still cannot find the MD case, but it appears the principals to hold the husband responsible for support are "presumption of legitimacy" and "paternity by estoppel". If my recollection is correct, the Maryland case relied upon "paternity by estoppel". Here's a position paper on it from Michigan: Senate Bill 557, Revocation of Paternity Act. | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 20:45 | comment | added | jww | Related, you may still be responsible for child support upon a split even if someone else fathers the child. It happened in a Maryland case (I live MD) but I cannot find a reference. A blue-eyed baby was born to a couple with a man without blue eyes (genetically impossible). The man had the baby's DNA tested and learned he did not father it. The couple subsequently split. The court reasoned the child only knew the husband as her father, so the husband was responsible for the support even though the wife had an affair and another man fathered the child | |
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 10:43 | answer | added | Horkrine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 11, 2018 at 13:53 | comment | added | user18592 | I don't have any idea, but we were sexually active during the affair so there is a possibility the child is mine, and the fair thing to do is find out regardless of my feelings regarding responsibility or maintenance. | |
| Jun 11, 2018 at 13:22 | comment | added | brhans | Do you believe that the child is yours and you intend to claim parental rights, that the child is not yours and you intend to disclaim maintenance responsibility, or do you not have any clear idea one way or the other and need to know so that you can decide your course of action one way or the other? | |
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