Legal Question in Family Law in Florida
This question has to do with Florida child-support laws. If anybody can help with this, you would be helping a person in great need, and I'd be eternally grateful. So here's the case: My mother passed away when I was 13-years old and I have been in the guardianship of my grandmother. I have never met my father, but managed to track him down in Miami, Florida. I also live in Florida. His name is not on my birth certificate, and he denies being my biological father. Although I have just turned 19, I am in College and I do not have a job. Therefore, is it possible for my grandmother and myself to get a court-ordered DNA test and (assuming he is my father) file a lawsuit for missed child-support payments from my birth up to the age of 18? I heard a rumor saying that I have until four years after I turn 18. Is that true?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Yes you can file for child support, 4 years from when you turn 18. You should file now. Contact my office for free consultation.
You have no standing to file for child support. Only your mother could have done that. Secondly, your grandmother probably received social security for you and medicaid. Rather than demand money from him, why don't you try and ask him if he could at least do the DNA that you would like to know him if he is your father. Honey gets a lot more flies than vinegar.
After he gets to know you, he might contribute to your education but he is not obligated to do so.
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