Legal Question in Family Law in Indiana

My son is a year old, and his father has only seen him two times in that year. He refused to take a paternity test since he was born, and recently my state of residence (Ohio) turned the paternity matter over to his state of residence (Indiana). While he was at court a few weeks ago, he decided to not take the paternity test, and instead decided to accept my son as his. Instead of turning the case back over to Ohio for the child support, Indiana decided to go ahead and proceed. They decided on an amount of child support (according to Indiana's rules), and also decided to change my son's last name to his fathers'. I was not able to attend the child support hearing because I was not notified about it and instead there was a person there to represent me. I am wondering if Indiana was legal in proceeding with the child support case, when they were supposed to turn it back over to Ohio because this is where my son and I live.


Asked on 2/25/11, 10:49 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jay Rigdon Rockhill Pinnick LLP

It won't affect the legality of the determination of paternity, support, etc. That will all be binding. Unless YOU are trying to get out of something that was decided, there should not be a problem. The process you described is very commonplace.

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Answered on 2/25/11, 10:53 am


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