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Any man that's good enough to pay child support is good enough to have
custody of such child.
"Phil" wrote in message
m...
These buttwipes don't care about "unintended consequences" because even
when they turn up, the only ones they worry about are those that feminists
want fixed.
In this case, he's worried that the state may have to finance women like
this woman and the results of their unilateral decisions if men who are no
longer forced to finance children they are unrelated to. One of the
possible unintended consequences just might be that fathers deserve to
have a relationship with their children as much as mothers and that
mothers are just as responsible for children they are unrelated to as
fathers. Can you imagine if women were held to be financially responsible
for their husband's former and future children, those to which she was
unrelated?
Phil #3

Even if one could, it would ONLY be an imagination.




"Dusty" wrote in message
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You won't believe the level of spin they put on this piece.. Army
Sergeant gets screwed by X over C$ for child he didn't sire, tries to get
the law changed and the legislature says, "..they were worried that
changing the law could have unintended consequences." Oh, ceasing to
screw a man over is going to have "unintended consequences"??? Are they
for real?!?

Then there's this beauty.. "We have to be very careful about fixing the
entire law because of one case," - State Sen. Tim Owens
Oh yeah, re-elect his ass right away.
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http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/994731.html

Kansas bill aims to fix 'presumed father' quandary
By DAVID KLEPPER
The Star's Topeka correspondent

TOPEKA - Wife has an affair, gets pregnant and gives birth to a boy.
Husband and wife divorce. Tests show the husband isn't the father, but a
court orders him to pay child support anyway.

It is a story of what happens when the birds and the bees get entangled
with the letter of the law, and on Wednesday, it had Kansas lawmakers
scratching their heads.

Master Sgt. Christopher Sprowson is a 19-year Army veteran now on his
third tour in Iraq. His wife, Karey, and three children live near Fort
Riley, where she stays home to raise the children.

In 1995, Sprowson's first wife had an affair and got pregnant. The couple
divorced when the child was still a baby, and Sprowson has never had a
relationship with the boy. Genetic tests prove the boy, now 13, is not
his.

But a judge decided it didn't matter. According to Kansas law, a husband
is the "presumed father" of his wife's children - even if the children
were fathered by another man. Because the boy's mother could not tell the
court who the father was, the judge ruled Sprowson had to pay.

The boy's mother never sought child support and offered to forgo the
money, Karey Sprowson said. But the state required the payments because
the mother once received welfare. The state automatically seeks child
support for any parent receiving state assistance.

On Wednesday, Karey Sprowson urged legislators to change the law so that
nonbiological fathers can use genetic tests to avoid paying child
support. She said her family can't afford the more than $10,000 the court
wants.

She said the state plans to garnishee her husband's Army paycheck and
keep the family's tax refund.

"It's not fair that my three children should have to suffer because of
this," she said, adding that such a remedy already was the law in such
states as Ohio, Colorado and Florida.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said they wanted to help, but
they also said they were worried that changing the law could have
unintended consequences.

The state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and the Kansas
Bar Association said many children could lose child-support payments if
the law is changed. One concern is that a stepfather could get out of
paying support after a divorce - no matter how long he had lived with his
children.

Ronald Nelson, a Johnson County lawyer who specializes in family law,
told legislators that the law recognizes that fatherhood is more than
biology. Nelson said legislation designed to help the Sprowsons would be
"a broad brushstroke that will affect hundreds, thousands of other
children."

State Sen. Tim Owens, an Overland Park Republican, said the committee
will try to pass the bill without creating new problems.

"We have to be very careful about fixing the entire law because of one
case," Owens said.