Does a father have to continue paying child support if he discovers the child is not his?
Written on behalf of Gelman & Associates 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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