Legal Question in Family Law in North Carolina

It's been over ten years...

Hi it has been 13 years since i had a son . when he was three the father and i separated we were never married and i had a child from a previous marriage. He wanted to take our son with him and i was fine with that. But before our son was ever born we had a verbal agreement if anything ever happend to us he would take the child and raise it without asking for any support from me, because i did not want another child... So here it is 10 years later and i reicieved a letter from Social Services for child support.. I do have a wittnes to what he said '' he said that he would never ask me for anything ''because he wanted to be a father so bad ... Please help me Thank you for your time...


Asked on 2/04/08, 10:40 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Thomas Kellis Law office of Thomas A. Kellis II

Re: It's been over ten years...

NC uses the "best interest of the child" standard. With that said, you cannot contract away child support if that is not the child's " best interest"

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Answered on 2/04/08, 9:26 pm


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