Legal Question in Family Law in Pennsylvania
child support
A boy and a girl are dating, going to college, the girl becomes pregnant. The boy is told the baby is his, he believes her and signs the birth certificate. They don't marry or move in together, in fact their relationship is ''on and off''. Several years later the boy has a paternity test done on the child because of rumors of the girl's infidelity. He learns that the child is in fact not his, and the girl admits she was unfaithful and thought the child might not be his. At this point they are no longer a even seeing each other.
After the boy graduates and gets a job, the girl sues him for child support and wins.
In Pennsylvania, when a child is born to unmarried parents, there is no legal relationship between the father and the child until there is paternity establishment. Does signing the birth certificate make him the ''father''?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: child support
I am unclear as to how she won at child support. They would have asked him to sign an Acknowledgment of Paternity, since the child was born out of wedlock. If he signed that, he waived his rights to paternity testing through the court, and once signed, he is the father, regardless of what the paternity test says. Unless he can prove fraud, etc., he may have no options. He does have custody rights to the child.
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