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The stories of victims of paternity fraud often provoke disbelief. Many men
are falsely assigned paternity in default judgments and are compelled by the
state to pay 18 years of child support for children whom DNA tests have
proven are not theirs. Many of these men are not properly served notice of
the paternity proceedings, never get their day in court and have no idea
they are "fathers" until their wages are garnished.

Often by the time these men realize what has been done to them, the statute
of limitations for challenging paternity has already passed, and sometimes
lose half or more of their take-home pay to child support, arrearages,
interest, and penalties -- often to support children they have never even
met.

In other cases, men are misled into supporting children who are not theirs.
Sometimes unwed men are urged to declare paternity of their girlfriend's or
ex-lover's children at or near birth, and such declarations, when later
found to be the product of deception, are hard to undo. Other men are
deceived by wives who bear children through adulterous liaisons and who
mislead them into thinking that the children are theirs.

In response to the paternity fraud crisis, several states, including
California, Georgia, Maryland, Alabama and others, have passed paternity
fraud legislation. Now paternity fraud activists' success has created a
backlash.

Law Professor Melanie Jacobs has emerged as a leading voice in the backlash
against paternity fraud laws. Family law attorney Jeffery Leving has
authored legislation to make paternity fraud a criminal offense. Jacobs and
Leving debateed paternity fraud laws and their philosophical underpinnings
on His Side with Glenn Sacks on February 6, 2005..


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