CourtClerk
Senior Member
Are we STILL having this conversation???? *sigh*
Casa... thanks for holding it down until I could get back.
Look people. In it's simplest terms... maybe ones some of you can understand, some of you just won't. If a child dies in utero at 6 months gestation, when docs go to get the child out of utero, a birth and death certificate are issued. At least here in California. It's considered a viable human being at that point.
Mom gets into a car accident and is hit by a drunk driver. 7 months pregnant. Mom and baby die. Drunk driver is charged with 2 counts of vehicular manslaughter (there is case law).
In CALIFORNIA, you can in fact file a paternity action on either side (by mom or by "dad") while the child is still in utero. There are forms and spots all over the place that indicate that this is in fact an unborn child and go as far as to ask for the expected delivery date. These forms have been in existance since before I started working with the court. If it wasn't legal, SOMEONE would have called it to the attention of the AOC by now.
You are also able to file for CS before the child is born.
Fact of the matter is.... dad was VERY VERY smart in doing what he did. He absolutely protected HIS rights as the presumptive father, as many of you would be telling the woman to do.
It's one of the very few things California got right the first time.
Casa... thanks for holding it down until I could get back.
Look people. In it's simplest terms... maybe ones some of you can understand, some of you just won't. If a child dies in utero at 6 months gestation, when docs go to get the child out of utero, a birth and death certificate are issued. At least here in California. It's considered a viable human being at that point.
Mom gets into a car accident and is hit by a drunk driver. 7 months pregnant. Mom and baby die. Drunk driver is charged with 2 counts of vehicular manslaughter (there is case law).
In CALIFORNIA, you can in fact file a paternity action on either side (by mom or by "dad") while the child is still in utero. There are forms and spots all over the place that indicate that this is in fact an unborn child and go as far as to ask for the expected delivery date. These forms have been in existance since before I started working with the court. If it wasn't legal, SOMEONE would have called it to the attention of the AOC by now.
You are also able to file for CS before the child is born.
Fact of the matter is.... dad was VERY VERY smart in doing what he did. He absolutely protected HIS rights as the presumptive father, as many of you would be telling the woman to do.
It's one of the very few things California got right the first time.