In yet another recent case of Paternity Fraud, there is a clear message being presented. Commit Paternity Fraud or cause cases of Mistaken Paternity and face paying back all the child support money. In an Augusta, Georgia child support case a judgment was levied against a biological mom and a biological dad, from a falsely accused putative father.
Judge David Roper said he felt badly for Kenneth Samuels when he learned the child he had fathered for 11 years wasn't his.
Justice was also shortchanged, the judge said, because Mr. Samuels had been paying child support all of those years.
Last month, Judge Roper ruled that Jamie Hope, the child's mother,
and Oba Wallace, the child's biological father, would have to repay Mr.
Samuels $14,460 in child support he had paid since 1997.
Such an order is unusual, but not unique.
The judge also made sure that the biological father was truly on the hook for the repayment to Mr. Samuels. Once the biological father established paternity, the Judge ruled that it could establish an order back to birth, in this case resulting in repayment back to the alleged father.
"You swore that he was the father when you took out a child support action," Judge Roper told Ms. Hope. He said he considered that action fraudulent and ordered Ms. Hope to repay Mr. Samuels the $14,460 he had paid in child support payments.
In February, Judge Roper ruled Mr. Wallace was liable to Mr. Samuels for the back child support, too. Judge Roper said in explaining his ruling that once paternity is established, a father can be required to
pay back support to the time of birth. Since Mr. Wallace's paternity was established, he was responsible for the child support since the birth in 1997, and responsible for repaying Mr. Samuels.
Be sure to look this judge up and send him a thank you for ensuring that biological parents are the ones that are responsible for their own children not innocent third-parties. In a time where women are having multiple sexual relationships at the same time, they should strongly be encouraged that if you name the wrong man a child's father, that it will cost them!
Cases of mistaken paternity or paternity fraud should be treated as equally important topics, so a child has the opportunity to have a strong relationship with both fit, caring, and willing parents.
You can read the entire article in Georgia's Augusta Chronicle at: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/030208/met_189488.shtml
