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07-06-2002, 12:07 PM
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Ohio. I have three children by the same father. We have never been married. All three receive social security payments from his disability record. I want to know if this is enough to establish paternity. If he dies could the administrator of his estate challenge their right to death benefits or inheritance? He does not have a will.
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07-06-2002, 09:41 PM
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| | | Is he listed on the birth certificates as the "father"?
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08-02-2002, 08:20 PM
| | | | Yes he is listed as the father, for all three. |
08-05-2002, 03:45 AM
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| | | Did he sign an affadavit of paternity? |
08-06-2002, 01:27 AM
| | | | He signed an affidavit of paternity for the oldest (14), when we lived in Michigan. The other two were born in Ohio. He signed a paper at the hospital for the middle child, I don't know what the form was called, "putatative fatherhood", I think. I recently found out from Child Support that he is not listed in the National parentage registry as the father for the youngest. I did not actually see him sign the papers when our youngest was born.
The reason I want this information, is that I am beginning to find out that the girls' father, who I thought I knew, is a very shady character. He never divorced his wife in Michigan. I thought they were history, but the Health deparatment has no record of a divorce for them. He has a son in Toledo, who he claims is not his. I believe the boy is his. And he told me he had a vasectomy before our second daughter was born. He explained that he did not know about the 6 time limit until zero live sperm. But after the second pregnancy since he had the vasectomy, I believe the whole vasectomy story was an outright lie. I guess I am extremely stupid because it took me so long to catch on, but apparently the man is a pathological liar, and I am a link in the chain of fools. And now that I am beginning to understand him a little better, I believe that paranoia is ruling him. I suspect he may believe, or may have even told family members that the younger girls are not his. I am 100% positive that a DNA test would show they are his. And it probably doesn't even matter, because if he died, I don't think he has anything to leave anyone. But if he did, I wouldn't want my girls to be cheated. I just don't want him to be able to deny them because he and I were never married. Things are getting ugly. I may even move somewhere, so that he does not know where we are. The level of deception is scary. The man is mostly fictional it seems. Now that I can tell when he is lying, I can see him doing it quite frequently. I was just trying to figure out if there are any additional legal steps which could be taken.  |
08-06-2002, 05:07 PM
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| | | If he signed anything regarding paternity or fatherhood then legally he's the father. I don't know how inheritance works where you live but I can give you a site to go to so you can try and look up the laws in your state regarding that.
[url]http://polisci.com/web/slegis.htm[/url] | |
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