March 17, 2017

What Establishing Paternity Does – and Does Not – Accomplish

Paternity



Establishing paternity can be important for your child in a number of ways such as requiring that the father provides him or her with financial support. It also serves to protect the parents’ rights and enable the father’s access to medical information. When Does Paternity Need to be Established? Paternity must be established when the parents of […]

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May 3, 2016

De-Establishing Paternity in Illinois

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In most cases, biological parents are ordered to pay child support to help provide for expenses related to raising their children. There is, however, a strange and little known about law regarding child custody and support that could enforce a man to pay child support for a child that is not biologically his. That law, along with […]

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