Reply #63: I don't know what state you live in, but I have never heard of the [View All]

process you are describing. DNA tests are ordered and performed to determine contested paternity in California.

Support and visitation issues are heard seperately. There is a standard dissomaster used to determine support. The court uses it here.

Courts aren't sexist here, just real effing slow. Like frozen mollasses.

I have worked my butt off to raise my two boys alone without financial assistance and health insurance for my youngest that was ordered by the court, while the father, when convenient for him, excersized visitation. I have had teeth pulled out rather than fixed so that I could buy tennis shoes for my kids. He has been in arrears some $40,000 at times. He has formed corporations, hidden income, conspired with employers, done everything thinkable to avoid supporting his child while maintaining a lavish lifestyle. It took years to get one thin dime. Everytime they get him they attach his wages for a while, then he moves on. Funny, the selfish bastard, has had the same girlfriend for 5 years now. She desperately wants a child. He won't make that mistake again.