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Texas: Law narrows paternity test window

Mastodon - Mon, 2012-09-17 01:23

Article here. Excerpt:

'If the deadbeat dad phenomenon is a national disgrace, paternity fraud is its oily underbelly.

Attorney Dennis Fuller has spent the past year trying to remedy the fraud that wreaks much the same emotional and financial havoc as the more common failure to pay legitimate support to a son or daughter.

His 12-month mission narrows greatly on Sept. 1, when a legal window closes for men who have long known the child they support is not theirs.

“There’s a remedy for a short period of time,” Fuller said this past week. “If you take the statistics the blood banks give us, and the researchers give us, there should be 128,000 guys in Texas that are paying child support for children who are not theirs.”'