Paternity Challenge Barred for Bad Timing

Father has DNA test disproving his paternity of child for whom court ordered him to pay support.

But he didn’t get it until 3 years after a Florida court entered a child support order.

For that reason, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the child support order against the Father.

The Court noted that children are not disposable, which is consistent with a long line of cases from before Florida’s new paternity fraud law.

The Court reportedly did not even mention the new paternity fraud law, under which the Father is considering pressing a new legal challenge.

Read more in this Bradenton Herald article: Man may turn to ‘paternity fraud’ law.

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