Father Sued by Couple for Child Support

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2006-10-16 23:29

This story is another example of just how absurd family law can actually get. Excerpt:

'A Saskatoon father who is battling with a Prince Albert couple for custody of his five-month-old son got a shock this week in the form of a letter demanding that he pay them child support.

"Shame on them," Rick Fredrickson said in an interview, after learning the couple who left a Saskatoon hospital with his newborn son this spring -- while he desperately sought help asserting his paternity and right to custody -- now wants access to his financial records in order to calculate how much he should pay them for the child's care.

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"If his son's mother was the one asking for child support, he would pay it immediately, Fredrickson said."'

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unbelievable

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Submitted by afg on Tue, 2006-10-17 12:06

How can a child be put up for adoption without the consent of both parents?

The fact that they are demanding child support shows that they understand that he is the legal and rightful father.
Their delaying tactics - which the state is supporting - are dispicable.

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Tue, 2006-10-17 13:03

Fathers must prove their paternaty and therefore if the mother does not tell him and does not put his name on the childs birth certificate he does not exist in the eyes of the state. Some one who does not exist is not required to grant permission for the childs adoption.

The mother of the baby screwed the fatehr out of custody probablly fearing she'd get hit with support payments if he got custody.

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Submitted by Paragon on Tue, 2006-10-17 16:00

This case is really pushing the evelope but why would we not expect someone who has at least an outside chance of being awarded a tax free revenue stream guaranteed by the state to go for it?

Plus having the bonus of not having to account to anyone about how it is actually spent!

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Submitted by Luek on Tue, 2006-10-17 21:04

Adoption removes the father's (and the mother's) parrental rights AND parrental responsibilities, including support. This couple, by suing the father for child support, are acknowledging that they do not have a legal and valid adoption, and therefore the father's rights and responsibilities have not be removed. Therefore, the father can use this against the couple to show that the adoption was not vaild, and claim status of fatherhood, removing the child from their invalid custody.

That's how it works in the US, anyways. I'm not sure if it is the same in Canada.

--Demonspawn

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Submitted by Demonspawn on Tue, 2006-10-17 21:19

One can only wonder why the biological mother isn't being asked to pay child support.

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Submitted by shawn on Tue, 2006-10-17 22:50