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A close friend of mine has a 12 year old kid who he has been paying child support for since the beginning. He signed the AOP (Acknowledgment Of Paternity) at the beginning. BUT, he now has reason to believe that he isn’t the father.

From the information that he now has, there is a really BIG possibility that he isn’t the father. But he has provided child support, insurance, and the works the whole time. He knows that no matter what, there is still a possibility that he IS the father.

How does he go about getting a paternity test done through court without having to pay the huge price tag that comes along with the test?

Can he buy one of those DNA tests online and use that?

If it turns out that he isn’t the father, what does he have to do to stop the child support and all that?

If it turns out that he isn’t the father, is there any way of suing the mother for all the money he paid towards the child???

PLEASE HELP!!!

Thanks a bunch in advance!
BTW, they live in Texas
No, I’m not a ‘jealous love interest’ or anything like that. This is someone who is pretty much like my brother, come on now!

Secondly, he really has NO relationship with the child, not by choice though. He has tried seeing his son and has tried being there for him all these years. The child’s mother has made it VERY impossible for him to see his son due to the fact that all she cares about is the money (and she admits it).

Yes, he could have gone to court or hired a lawyer to enforce the court order, but hiring a lawyer costs thousands of dollars in TX. He does not have that sort of cash. He is in the military and has been deployed like every other year or so, so does not really get the opportunity to ask for the order to be enforced.

He does care for the child, he’s been there since day one, but he has been through so much and the childs mother has put him through HELL, literally, that at after getting new info, he is ready to find out for sure. Please don’t pass judgement on him.

A close friend of mine and I slept together about a year ago when she was visiting for the first time since moving to London. She discovered she was pregnant some time after, but wasn’t sure if it was me or another guy who was the father.

At that time, I was okay with doing a paternity test to figure things out, but since then, my mother has passed away, leaving me to watch after my two little brothers (one 13, one 7) with my live-in, long-term girlfriend. It’s kind of like they are our children.

I’m worried about what my girlfriend may think of me, what she may think of the other girl and how stressful it could be knowing I have a baby girl in the world and very little I can do to help her or her mother, but I’m also worried about having that baby girl growing up without knowing who her father is. They will be visiting next week, and I’m considering doing a paternity test.

It could stir up a lot of drama and stress, or it could do nothing.
What do you think is best here?

Everything is going well with everyone at the moment without knowing this information. Should we leave well enough alone, or just get to the bottom of it already?

Never in a million years did I ever think I’d be asking this question, or anything pertaining to this question!

I have been ordered to undergo a paternity test, along with my baby and his “father”. I’ve been doing a lot of reading about them, and I am really confused because I have found a lot of conflicting information.

Basically, what I understand is the results can come back 0%, 99% or 99.9999% (or 100%). From what I’ve read, if it comes back even 99% conclusive, it still does not mean that the person is the father. So, basically it has to come back 99.99% conclusive to be considered a true match, right?

I guess my question is this – If the tests come back only 99% conclusive, does that mean that the “father” of my child has no legal rights to him? And I can walk away from him at that point in time?

Save the “two parents in your life” lecture, please. I’d rather my son had no father than the father that is in the picture.

I know it’s impossible to get a false positive but what about a false negative result? I ask because a friend of mine had a DNA test done and it came back that he was not the father.

She swears that he’s the only one she was with. Could the lab have made a mistake?

Thanks in advance for any help.

How reliable are DNA paternity tests? We took then at an office, and from there they are being mailed to a lab.

Would that in any way affect the DNA?

Please tell me if you had a good experience using this or any home DNA testing kit. By this I mean DNA tests that you do in the home and send away to a lab then get your results back.

Thank you in advance for any help!

The baby was born in December. The once thought father signed the birth certificate and took several paternity tests months later saying he was not the father.

This is where I come in. I met this girl once. I went to NJ in August to see the baby and go to court. I wasn’t able to take the test in NJ and told to take it in Colorado a week later. I was told they would contact me.

Over a month has gone by and still no word. I called and they have all my correct information and keep saying they will get to me. The mother does not want any child support.

I’m just wondering if a paternity court order can be dismissed after a certain amount of time. The whole thing seems really shady and I don’t want to get screwed in the end. I’m afraid she will come after me financially years from now. Any advice out there?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi, me and my girlfriend are trying to figure out if I’m the father of her baby. Her doctor would not do the amnio and we researched online and apparently many labs now offer non-invasive prenatal paternity testing.

We called and set up everything with a company called DNA Plus and she’s supposed to go get her blood taken at the hospital today. The guy on the phone told us not to mention anything about paternity testing to the hospital.

Doesn’t that seem kind of shady? Me and her are scared because of the reliability of this now. The website claims basically 100% accuracy and they are BBB accredited.

Here is a link to the page by the way: http://www.dnaplus.com/fetal_cell_prenat…

Also, we have to ship the blood aand DNA samles ourselves using FedEx.

I called them back (btw, its ALWAYS the same guy that answers the phone and its 24/7) and asked them why we can’t mention anything and he said “its none of the hospital’s business. and hospitals don’t like doing anything paternity related because it can end up leading to an abortion, and all the paperwork says we’re doing bloodtesting which that is what we’re doing.”

Waiting till the baby is born is not an option. We’re both going through emotional turmoil and need an answer. Nobody in the family even knows she’s pregnant due to the embarrassing circumstances.

I was casually seeing a girl in 2007. We were never in a relationship and only saw each other when it suited her. She then told me she was pregnant and said she knew I was the father.

I was shocked and told her I couldn’t be more against having a baby with her. She said she didn’t want or need anything from me, and gave me her word. I insisted on a paternity test and even after she said she would pay for it, I had to. Then I had to wait 9 agonizing months until I could get the saliva samples from the mother and baby and send them to a lab along with mine.

The test 100% excluded me from paternity . The girl said “that’s a load of shit, you are the only possible father”. I told her to never contact me again. She didn’t for two years, until yesterday she phoned while I was out ( I saw her number as a missed call).

WTF this brings it all back to me, even though I have the DNA results that say I am not the father I get the feeling this woman is going to still give me trouble and insist that I am the father.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Addition: The paternity test was not one through the legal system. I simply obtained the samples and posted them to the lab so the results are not legally binding.

If she does insist, should I tell her to go the legal route?, which would mean a paternity test would be requested by the courts?.

As I told her to leave me the hell alone after I got the results, I doubt she wants to catch up or apoligise. If I did another test and it was positive, I wouldnt accept that. If the first one can be wrong the second one can too. If so I will take a third!

This place called any lab test now is where my husband had the dna test done for the suspected child his ex was claiming was his after 4 years. It only took 48 hours to get the results.

I share kids with my husband and they look so much like him it isn’t even funny. This kid resembles nothing of him at all. The dna test came back like 97%. This is not a submissible test result for court.

I just have this feeling that this child is not his. So what I am trying to ask is 48 hours a little soon to get results and could this test been a spoof like one that you go to and yeah whoever shows is the father.

Has anyone had this happen or know someone its happened to?  How often does false results happen?