Man forced to pay child support despite DNA test results

[LJ_Reloaded]

Feminism in action, folks.

http://kdvr.com/2016/07/27/man-forced-to-pay-child-support-despite-dna-test-results/

DENVER -- Chris Atkins leads a life that might be stranger than any episode of "The Maury Povich Show."

The daytime talk show host has made a living out of revealing DNA test results to squabbling couples, but Atkins already knows DNA has proven he’s not the father of his ex-wife’s daughter, who was 2 1/2 years old when the couple divorced.

But since the truth didn’t come out until the girl was 11 and his name remains on the birth certificate, he is legally obligated to keep paying child support.

“It doesn’t make any sense to me,” said Atkins, who hasn’t had contact with the now-15-year-old girl in four years.

This is why the men's rights movement exists - to put an end to this shit.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Feminism in action, folks.

http://kdvr.com/2016/07/27/man-forced-to-pay-child-support-despite-dna-test-results/

This is why the men's rights movement exists - to put an end to this shit.

So he cared for the girl till she was 11?

Then he should continue. And if was actually a man then he wouldn't need the court to tell him.

 

[Wrong Element]

Did this asshole go to the media because he thought people would sympathize with a man who decided to stop acting as a father based on a DNA test?

He thought wrong.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Exactly. This is his kid.

 

[hashtag45]

Sounds like a messy - murky situation. I wasn't even able to follow the facts, let alone figure out who was in the right or in the wrong:



"Atkins said he only learned the truth when Lonnquist told him she wanted to legally change her daughter’s last name because she was getting remarried.
Atkins refused to agree to the name change and that’s when he said Lonnquist told him the girl wasn’t really his anyway.
“So the alarms went off and we had a DNA test done and she's not my biological daughter that I raised for 11 years," Atkins said.

“It doesn’t make any sense to me,” said Atkins, who hasn’t had contact with the now-15-year-old girl in four years.
"I just want my daughter, but I can't even see her, but yet I'm still paying child support. And the biological father has been found and he gets to spend time with her. I don't get nothing,” Atkins said.
He accused his ex-wife Lori Lonnquist of ignoring court custody orders that grant him visitation while still collecting child support.

Atkins denied that and said Lonnquist refused to facilitate visits.
When asked if she was taking advantage of the situation, Lonnquist responded, “Maybe so, but that's also not on me. My kid doesn't want to see him. She wants nothing to do with him.”

The 48-year-old said he should be allowed to maintain visitation with a girl he considered his daughter or if not, be allowed to stop paying $730 a month in child support and health insurance.
--Lonnquist said she would agree to stop collecting child support from Atkins if he would agree to terminate his parental rights."

 

[richard_daily]

The OP sounds like a scum bag.

He's taking care of a kid until age 11, and then he just stops?

What a fucking piece of shit.

 

[Mrtenant]

Sounds like a Jerry Springer rerun

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Exactly. This is his kid.

Actually, it's not. The DNA shows it's not. The ex-wife lied to him. This is called fraud you idiot. Of course this is another way you feminists strive to take rights away from men.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Did this asshole go to the media because he thought people would sympathize with a man who decided to stop acting as a father based on a DNA test?

He thought wrong.

Of course, you all believe that a woman has a right to enslave a man to pay for a kid fathered by another man.

That's feminism for you.

Genetically, it isn't his kid. If the genes don't fit, you gotta acquit.

 

[OldJourno]

There are states, perhaps all states, that require married men to pay child support even if they are estranged and the child was fathered by someone else.

 

[hashtag45]

Look at all the knights in shining armour.
While it's nice to see male posters -on a rel. misogynistic site- being mindful of the difficulties faced by single mothers, I think that they didn't read carefully the whole article.

Imo, this doesn't look like a straightforward case.
And while I think that Atkins is a jerk for making things public with little consideration for the daughter's feelings, there are a few points that made me feel a bit more sympathetic towards him :


1.If Atkins is to be believed, for the last 4 years he's been paying for child support , while forced to stay away from his daughter.

2.His wife now wants to change her and her daughter's surname from Atkins's to the one of the biological father, because she wants to marry the biological father of her daughter.
However, the biological father doesn't want to put his name on his daughter's birth certificate. In order to avoid paying child support, or have an additional income -from Atkins- coming into the household, or whatever.

Therefore, Atkins might have to continue paying child suppport, without being allowed to see the daughter (apparently 'she wants nothing to do with him'),
while the daughter carries someone else's surname and is being raised by someone else. (the biological father).

 

[Sean Renaud]

I tend to trust when people post a clip of an article that the important information is there and with LJ it either isn't or you might have to do a lot of googling and have a solid outside perspective to cover it.

The woman is not a good guy in this story but you raised this kid for years and years. It is your child. The most important thing I will pass down to my children is the same thing my parents passed down to me. Philosophy, morals, and character. I don't think I look overly like either of my parents to begin and take my male pattern baldness and diabetes please! The only objectively attractive trait I got my parents is nearly being tall but really all my siblings got it better. I'm 6'0 on a good day, 5'11 any other time. I didn't get my Dad's blue grey eyes or mother's complexion (not that I'd really want it but most people look at her and assume Mexican not black. My grandmother on herside was flat out passing for white.) That's not what makes me me.

So if I had raised this child for years and years this wouldn't be a fight over paying child support if the kid needed it. This would be a fight about some sperm donor thinking he had any rights at all because of a biological mistake.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

After Atkins learned the truth, he tried to submit the DNA test to an Arapahoe County judge, but the family law judge refused to accept the evidence because Atkins, who represented himself at the time, didn’t know the legal rules for submitting evidence.

A man who represents himself has a fool for an attorney. Had he hired a lawyer, he would have submitted the DNA evidence properly and would have had a different outcome. Instead he hired an attorney for the appeal, but it was too late to get the DNA evidence considered. He has to only himself to blame for being a cheapskate.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Feminism in action, folks.

http://kdvr.com/2016/07/27/man-forced-to-pay-child-support-despite-dna-test-results/

This is why the men's rights movement exists - to put an end to this shit.

He raised her as his own, and will just toss her aside?
He's going to punish that child? How cruel of him.

 

[Darbhinder]

Women like that should be put to sleep.

 

[badbabysitter]

This case is a zoo

douchenozzle mom has a kid with another guy and lies about the parentage

the " father" keeps raisng the kid and supporting the kid untill she's 11

" daddy" finds out he's not the daddy...wants to terminate his parental responibilities for the kid he allegedly cares about and whom he legally still stands as a legal guardian of

he stupidly represents himself and gets his evidence thrown out


he then continues to support the kid while claiming he's being kept away from the kid

douchenozzle ex wife claims he's made no attempt to see the kid since learning the truth

and the kid allegedly wants nothing to do with dad

and those three claims are the crux of it

if mom can be shown to be lying, then he should be allowed to see the kid..sadly she's done nothing legally wrong, so she gets a pass regardless

if dad is lying about trying to visit.. he's just wanting to be called dad and not have to an iota of legal responsibility for the child he allegedly cares for

and if the kid really doesnt want to see dad ..then he should just suck it up till she's 18 and pay child support because in this case dear old dad doesnt care about what she wants and just wants to stick it to his ex wife

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

He raised her as his own, and will just toss her aside?
He's going to punish that child? How cruel of him.

Ah so this is all about letting women get away with defrauding men by lying to them. Gotcha.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Women like that should be put to sleep.

Or just throw her in prison.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I tend to trust when people post a clip of an article that the important information is there and with LJ it either isn't or you might have to do a lot of googling and have a solid outside perspective to cover it.

The woman is not a good guy in this story but you raised this kid for years and years. It is your child.

No it's not. She defrauded him, she lied to him. She should go to jail for this.

If you trick someone into doing something based on a lie then it's called fraud and the arrangement is null and void in any other situation. Why not here?

Oh I know why - because it favors the woman, that's why!

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Now this is how you properly deal with a lying ex-wife who makes her husband pay for a kid that isn't his.

http://www.frostbecklaw.com/blog/2012/10/man-awarded-damages-in-paternity-fraud-case.shtml

Man awarded damages in paternity fraud case
On behalf of Frost & Beck PC posted in Paternity on Wednesday, October 24, 2012.

When a divorce occurs, the parties involved must decide how to divide their property and any other assets they share. There must also be some consideration made for the children that they have together. Denver parents often work through the court system or a mediator to determine what is the best living situation for their children after a divorce.

Paternity is usually presumed in divorce cases involving children, but when a father comes to have doubts later and then confirms his suspicions by DNA testing, divorce cases can take unexpected twists.

In November 2011, a man filed a case in the Tennessee Supreme Court for paternity fraud. He claimed that his ex-wife intentionally misled him into believing that the son he was raising while they were married was his biological child. He had also adopted a child that his spouse had had prior to their relationship.

After some time, they decided to divorce. In the divorce settlement, he was ordered to pay child support for both children. He complied with the court order and both adults went on to have second marriages. When the man's son asked to live with him, they went back to court to amend the order. Custody was transferred to the father and the mother was ordered to pay support.

Questions arose surrounding the differences in physical appearance between the father and son. The father then performed a paternity test and discovered that the boy was not his biological child. After the test was confirmed at the request of the mother, the father filed a civil case seeking damages from the mother for intentional deception.

Early this month, the Supreme Court in the man's home state upheld a lower court's ruling awarding the father $25,000 in damages for being ordered to pay child support and medical insurance