Does a father have to continue paying child support if he discovers the child is not his?
By Lisa Gelman on March 16, 2017 in Articles, Child Support, Divorce, Gelman Blog Posts
The British Columbia Supreme Court recently ruled that a man who was misled into believing he was the biological father of a child does not owe any continued child support for that child even though he was found to have assumed the role of a parent during the early years of the child’s life. The …
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