Legal Question in Family Law in New York

he signed the acknowledgement of paternity

Here is the story, when I first met

my husband, I was 6 months

pregnant by another man, My

husband took on the responsibilty of

taking care of my child, he decided to

have the child's name change legally

to his last name through the court

but he never adopted the child,

When the child was born he never

signed the birth certificate in the

hospital but during the name change,

the dept of birth ceritificate and

health requested that he sign an

acknowledge of parternity and have it

nortorized acknowleding that he is

the father of the child and would

provide supprort. He has provided

sole support for the child's from birth

until now she is 15yrs old, She has

never met her biological father. Now

we are going through a divorce and

he has to pay $400 a week for the

both children his biological and the

child he decided to take care of from

birth. Now he said he will have a dna,

which isn't necessary because we

know the facts . he refuses to pay

child support for her, Could the judge

only allow him to support our

biological only because she has never

met her biological because he asked

me in the beginning not to keep in

contact with him. I need help here.

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