[quote=FlyerInHi]i think that dads get their wages garnished for child support. Bearishgurl should chime in on this topic. Maybe she knows.
Can you give birth and not list the father? I doubt a woman would not identify the father of her child if only to have him by the balls.[/quote]
The mom can name anyone she wants on her kid’s birth certificate but if she later files for TANF (cash welfare aid), the dad she names on it is going to be sued for CS by the gubment (for “aid reimbursement”). If he knows he’s not the dad (or suspects he is not, whether currently for formerly married to the mom … or not), he can demand a paternity test. It’s pure folly for the mom to lie about the dad’s identity to her aid worker and potentially lose benefits or in the worst case, be charged with welfare fraud.
I don’t know how much (if any) cash aid is actually withheld from the mom (or limited in duration paid to the mom) if the person she named to the aid agency as her kid(s) father turned out not to be. It could have been an innocent mistake. The mom would likely have to come up with a different name for the father (and age, location and SSN if she knows it) for the agency to track down.
I don’t think applicants for cash aid can easily proffer a fake identity for their kid’s dad to their aid agency. The aid workers likely have ways of determining if the father’s identity offered to them by the applicant is that of a real person. They can do this while the applicant waits in another room.
The only exception to the non-custodial parent being immediately sued by the aid agency for CS upon an aid application being filed by the custodial parent is if the applicant (“mom” in this case) comes in to the aid office to file for benefits with her kid(s) father’s death certificate or proof that he is currently incarcerated or a patient in a long-term rehabilitation facility. In the latter two instances, the agency may wait for a period of months or years to establish child support orders for the non-custodial parent (if the kids in question are still minors at that time).
A single mom who has been trying mightily to keep her kid(s) from having any relationship with their dad(s) would be well-advised never to file for TANF cash aid. Once an assumed dad is served with CS papers by the gubment, he can immediately file for his time-share and custody share of the child(ren) whom he acknowledges are his and also file to obtain court orders to share the children with the mom thereby lessening his exposure to CS.
If the person sued for CS didn’t already know he had a child with the applicant, now he does and he is free to file to enforce all his rights to that child after paternity is established.
