Legal Question in Family Law in Missouri

I have a son who is 20 in college; he will be 21 in March of 2010. My husband and I have been married for almost 20 years. My son's bilogical father has surfaced out of the blue demanding that he meet my son. He has had NO contact with him; in fact my son doesn't even know he exists. He believes my husband to be his one & only father. His biological father insisted on an abortion over 21 years ago & I absolutely refused therefore he walked out of our lives completely and has never given us a dime of any type of child support. I considered it a blessing in disguise! My husband legally adopted him many years ago. Do we have any legal rights to keep my son's bilogical father from having any contact with him? I feel like if it were legal to tell him I would sue him for back child support that he would dismiss any attempts to make contact...knowing his bilogical father he wouldn't want it to "cost" him anything to make that contact. Did not know since my son is now 20 if we had anything to hold onto for leverage? Thank You for your counsel. Keri


Asked on 11/16/09, 11:33 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael R. Nack Michael R. Nack, Attorney at Law

Your son is an adult. You owe his biological father nothing. Let him get a lawyer to see if he can get any court ordered rights at this point. BUt, be aware that he might contact yor son directly, and there is no legal way that I know of to keep this from happening. Also, have you considered the fact that it might become very important someday for your son to have some medical history of this side of his bloodline?

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Answered on 11/22/09, 11:55 pm


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