you dont want to know...it's cost me a fortune, and will continue to.

And that doesnt count the travel costs associated with flying to Utah every other month for hearings

Or this. Yeah totally this now that I think of it.

Yes

Dont put it past some on this board....

That bitch is a slore.

Okay, given that she has testified that it is your child, do you not receive any parental rights?

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Don't worry about some of the mentally-challenged posters on this board. You're doing what almost any father would (and should) do

It's a good thing you have the means to do so.

Yes, we all know that crazy women never lie and change the story later. If I was in your shoes, I just told you what I'd do. You need to think about what you're signing up for on the off chance that the kid might need a kidney from you someday.

You've been given a gift. Take it and run.

Well, man, you'll get nothing but respect from me. If someone tried to take either of my kids away from me I'd fight with everything I have. I commend you for doing the same.

None...because the laws say that the only way I can petition for custody and visititation is with DNA test results that show a 99.9% result of it being my kid...and the only way to get a DNA test is by having standing to ask for one...which their double laws wont allow me to.

To be blunt, the LAW, which is based on ancient precepts long pre-dating such things as DNA (at least in the field of family law) does not give a goddamn about your "rights" as the father. It cares about one thing and one thing only -- "the best interests of the child."

Because it is in the best interests of the child, there is usually an automatic and conclusive presumption that the husband of a woman giving birth IS THE FATHER.

Your wife gave birth even though you're both Swedish and the kid is clearly biracial? The law doesn't care. Oh, you had a vasectomy too? The law doesn't care. Wait, your penis was actually removed in a horrific wood-chipper incident 8 years ago and the kid is now 2? The law doesn't care.

That law is changing, but VERY slowly. Not sure what the law is in your jurisdiction, but in some places, all the testimony in the world won't work to change it.

Move to the inner city, it's much easier to do there.

We're not even at the 'best interests of the child' phase yet. That's the custody portion of the case.

This is about the step prior to that. There are two sets of laws governing standing to pursue these actions, and they currently only use one set of them (which are judge made not legislature based) *If they had used the other set i would have won*.

This is about the inequality of laws like these that only men have to abide.

And someone has to go first, else it will never change. I have no delusions of grandeur...shit I'm a Chiefs Fan...but it isnt right that these laws are used to strip fathers (and fathers only), women dont have to endure "standing" when they ask for a DNA test on men (ask Justin Beiber)..and if no one ever fights, it will never change.