Legal Question in Family Law in Georgia

A father has taken care of his son since he was 6 months old because the Bio-mom didn't want him. The boy is 10 years old now. The bio-mom lives in California and the son and dad live in Georgia. She sees her son twice a year when the father flys out to California to visit family. She calls and talks to the son once a week, and that is her involvement with him. He has given her 10 years to get her stuff together and start helping support him. It is getting really hard to support him with no help as he gets older, can the father go after her for child support and how? She has been saying she was going to help for 3 years now, but NEVER has. Yet she gives her 3 year old son EVERYTHING and collects child support from that baby's dad. She is always spending money and buying herself lavish things, so she has the money. What can he do and how?


Asked on 9/25/10, 1:42 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Glen Ashman Ashman Law Office also dba Glen Ashman Attorney

Unless the two parties were married, teh father is not legally the father and cannot seek support unless he first legitimizes the child and seeks custody.

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Answered on 9/30/10, 2:15 pm


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