Are there any court cases in Texas where a step-father was ordered to pay child support for his step-child who chooses to live with the childs biological father?
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Well, that was a very profound answer from a "blooming" law student.\n\nCare to enlighten us on what you found on this subject during your "free time"??  You have free time to look this up, more free time to type a response, but not time to tell us anything worth reading?? hhhmmmm\n\nGeez, you'd better add some substance to your answers once you graduate or the Bar will chew you up!!
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The first answerer to your question is correct and below are links to specific information regarding the laws and processes of divorce for the state of Texas ....\n\nhttp://womansdivorce.com/texas.html#LAW\n\n\nhttp://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/fatoc.html
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There is no place on a military installation that will get involved with a civil matter such as a child support order.  You need to hire a civilian attorney who is conversant with military law.  Child support court orders go through the servicemember's chain of command.  The command then gives the Servicemember the opportuntity to VOLUNTARILY  begin paying the child support.  If they do not, then they can forcefully make them do so.
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Only a court can do this. You need a lawyer. \n\nI got a great-nephew no one in this family knew about until he was two. His maternal grandparents wanted to adopt him. If the father is of a decent sort (which my nephew is) and he is *game* to pay child support, it's easier to come to a friendly agreement (especially if the father has decent parents who will absolutely adore their grandchild).\n\nThe is the kind of thing best discussed by the family over coffee, and not in a courtroom.\n\nYour post, however, suggests you and the father have some serious ill-will between each other.Child visitation/custody and child-support issues are sometimes used as weapons in such disputes. If he is paying child support, and short of him being an unfit parent (hard to prove) you really don't have a leg to stand on. \n\nYour child should not become a weapon to use against his father. It will only warp him.
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I'm new to TX and did not know it recognizes "common law" marriage. If your father and step-mom filed their taxes jointly as a married couple then he probably does have a case for bigamy. It's like a contract admitting their commitment. But if she always filed single, I really don't see how he can prove bigamy.\n\n\n\nYou know, your Father is acting irrational. He did NOT make the marriage commitment to this woman, and now expects the same protections under the law. He sounds very possesive, and selfish.
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child support is not a magical number that the judge pulls out of his butt.  child support is based on the income of the mother, the income of the father etc.  the state has a chart and depending on what the father makes a figure is computed. in other words x+y=z.  unfortunately i see alot of cases come through my court where the father is the one 99% of the time paying child support.  and even worse the state does not factor in if the father has a mortgage, utilities, food expenses etc.  it sucks big!  i get so angry sometimes in court, but we have to maintain our proffessionalism.  and as soon as these women find out that the father has obtained a second job, they petition the court for more money because he has more income.  I had a case last week that was just absolutely insane.  the man was a capt. in the army and he was ordered to pay alimony, child support, and maintain the mortgage on the house that she got during the divorce and he no longer resides in.  in the end with all the money he was paying out to her, she ended up receiving more of his income than he did.  I have even had many men blatently tell the judge that they would rather go to jail than to pay.  I think in regards to reaching what amount he or she should pay, the state should take into considering what he/she pays out in living expenses and then factor child support. unfortunately the state feels that if you have to live under a bridge they don't care as long as they pay.  you can always repetition the court and present your case and see if they will lower his support amount.
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It sounds like you have a hard road to follow.  Please don't let him relinquish his rights.  From the sounds of it, your stepdaughter needs someone in her life who is willing to act responsibly on her behalf.  Obviously her mother isn't doing her job as a parent.  \n\nMy advice is similar to several others already on here.  Go to a lawyer.  Get every bit of information you can on your stepdaughter's life....police reports, school reports, teachers' files, doctor's reports, neighbor's thoughts on her life with mom...and find out exactly what is going on over there.  If you can prove that she is not being raised and cared for according to acceptable standards-and it sounds like just looking at her police reports and tatoos might do the trick-it wouldn't be hard for you to get custody, even if she want's to live with her mother.  The judge will look at what is best for her, not just what she wants.  \n\nAlso, when your stepdaughter is at your house for visitation, her mother does not have the right to show up and neither does grandma.  They can see her whenever she is not scheduled to be with you guys.  You do have the right to tell them to leave, without your stepdaughter.  There is nothing they can do about it.  Also, take the cell phone away when she is with you guys.  Tell her she can have it back when she is about to go back to her mom's house.  And if they do not bring her to your home or make her available to you when you have scheduled visitation, call the police.  I know it sounds harsh, but most states have laws about this.  Where I live, every missed visitation that my husband and I didn't agree on ahead of time cost his ex $1500 refusal of visitation ticket.  Judges don't like it when their orders are ignored.  Unless she has a VERY good reason for not following the custody and visitation agreement, she will be paying for it.  It's a way to make her realize you guys are not going to be railroaded by her and what she wants. \n\nPlease don't give up on this kid.  Remember, she is just a kid, and doesn't know what she needs.  You two are the parents, and need to make sure she knows this.  One day she will thank you for trying to make sure she didn't throw her life away by acting like a juvenile delinquent.  I hope everything works out for you guys.  I will keep you in my prayers.  :)
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I live in Pa also and tried to do the same thing.I was not permitted to have my child's fathers rights terminated,and he hadn't seen my son for years and sent very sporadic child support.The reason I was given,according to my lawyer,was that in Pa,a child cannot be made a "bastard",terrible name,but that is what they legally call a child without a father.If I had been remarried and my new husband wanted to adopt my son,that would be a possibility,but they cannot make a child fatherless.Their reasoning I'm sure is that the child might then become the states responsibility if the mother alone couldn't support the child.This is the experience that I had dealing with the same issues.Good luck to you.
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Just because they give all the right away, the court will still make them pay for the child. This happen to my sister-in-law. Her boyfriend gave up his rights and they made him still pay child support until her husband adopted her son.
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every state has different child custody laws. this is what mine are:  i moved from cali to texas when my daughter was 3 months old her father stayed in cali. the order was that i had full physical custody and joint legal custody which means i have her all the time but if anything happened, like god forbid and accident, he would have a say in the matter. now that she is 6 she has to see him at least twice a year for at least a week but that is with me there and we split the cost of airfare. alot can be done and you have a while before you have to worry about that.in my experience i have learned that most family courts are in favor of the mothers and a baby needs his/her mother the first year most. stay strong it will all work out. congratulations!
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Yes, an unwed father is responsible for child support.  How it is handled, and the exact legalities is a state level mandate, and varies depending on State Statues.
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You had a legal order for him to pay support and he failed to do so--that is why your husband was granted adoption of your child. Once your child was adopted--the boys father's obligation to pay ceased.  Unless you agreed to dismiss the arrears due to you-he would still owe you that $.  Are you sure it was a letter to you or a copy sent to the boys' biological father.  Here is the AR website:\n\nhttp://www.arkansas.gov/dfa/child_support/ocse_index.html\n\nit may just help to call the office where your order is and ask.  I've never heard of a custodial parent being subject to tax intercept.
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I think if he has been ordered to pay child support some type of parternity must have been established.  He can go to court and stop you from moving out of state.  I would contact an attorney and talk them about this.  Good luck!
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You should not have to pay any support from the date that her husband adopted the child. At that point, you were no longer the legal father, the adoptive father was.\n\nThe only period that you MIGHT be liable for is the 5 years that she had the child when on the run, and only then MAYBE if she was getting welfare for the child.  The state might try to make you pay it back to the state.  But they shouldn't do that since you had legal custody and she had kidnapped the child.\n\nHIRE A LAWYER NOW!
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Under California law it does not matter how long you have been together regarding child support. It depends on how much each of you make and who gets custody. If you are the primary care giver, your child support is going to be paid according to how much time your ex-spouse spends with the kids. Also unless he adopted the child that is not the spouses biological child he does not have to pay any thing for the one child. As far as alimony goes once again it depends on income but since you have been married for 9 years you will only get it for four and a half years. The calculations are different from county to county as are some of the laws.
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Congratulations!\n\nI am an adoptive parent and a step-parent. Here is all I know about step-parent adoption.\nState laws on stepparent adoptions vary. Most States have a streamlined process for adoptions by stepparents whereby the judge hearing the adoption petition has the ability to dispense with the requirement in State laws for an adoption home study. Some States, however, will not approve a stepparent adoption unless the custodial parent has been married to the stepparent for 1 year or longer.\n\nWhen a stepparent wishes to adopt a stepchild, the child's parents (the stepparent's spouse and the noncustodial or absent parent) are usually both required to consent to that adoption. In consenting to an adoption, the noncustodial parent relinquishes all parental rights and responsibilities, including child support. If the noncustodial parent objects to the proposed adoption and refuses to consent to it, State laws may prevent the adoption from proceeding.\n\nSome State adoption laws specify special circumstances under which the noncustodial parent's consent is not required. Other States have made special provisions in their adoption laws to allow stepparent adoptions to occur, even over the objections of the noncustodial parent, in cases where the noncustodial parent has failed to maintain communication with the child for a specified period of time.\n\n\nHere's a link to more info about stepparent adoption\nhttp://naic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/f_step.cfm\n\nHere is a link to search statutes by state for issues related to child adoption. Results will provide summaries of State statutes (and full text of laws, in some cases).\nhttp://naic.acf.hhs.gov/general/legal/statutes/search/index.cfm\n\nBest wishes and God Bless
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State laws on stepparent adoptions vary. Most States have a streamlined process for adoptions by stepparents whereby the judge hearing the adoption petition has the ability to dispense with the requirement in State laws for an adoption home study. Some States, however, will not approve a stepparent adoption unless the custodial parent has been married to the stepparent for 1 year or longer.\n\nWhen a stepparent wishes to adopt a stepchild, the child's parents (the stepparent's spouse and the noncustodial or absent parent) are usually both required to consent to that adoption. In consenting to an adoption, the noncustodial parent relinquishes all parental rights and responsibilities, including child support. If the noncustodial parent objects to the proposed adoption and refuses to consent to it, State laws may prevent the adoption from proceeding.\n\nSome State adoption laws specify special circumstances under which the noncustodial parent's consent is not required. Other States have made special provisions in their adoption laws to allow stepparent adoptions to occur, even over the objections of the noncustodial parent, in cases where the noncustodial parent has failed to maintain communication with the child for a specified period of time.\n\n\nHere's a link to more info about stepparent adoption\nhttp://naic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/f_step.cfm\n\nHere is a link to search statutes by state for issues related to child adoption. Results will provide summaries of State statutes (and full text of laws, in some cases).\nhttp://naic.acf.hhs.gov/general/legal/statutes/search/index.cfm