Indiana Injury And Family Lawyer BlogMan Protests Child Support Order to Pay for Child Not His
A man in Iowa at first thought it was a joke when a letter arrived from the state ordering him to pay child support for a 1-year-old born to a woman he hadn’t seen in 17 years.
But it was no laughing matter.
The case came about because, as The Daily Mail reported, the man was still legally married to that woman, his long-estranged wife. The pair had never formally divorced. In Iowa – just like in Indiana – a woman’s husband is the presumed father if:
- He and his wife were married when the child was born;
- The child is born no later than 300 days after the marriage ends.