Q: My daughter's father is a marine, finishing training in California, I'm curious how would a child support case proceed?
Paternity was established when he signed the hospital paperwork. And he hasn't given me any money whatsoever thus far.
A:
You may not need a lawyer to ensure that your daughter's father pays child support as long as you know his unit of assignment and have a phone number to his commanding officer. Under Navy regulations (see link below) military personnel has an obligation to pay adequate support to any a dependents. You must contact his chain of command and cite the regulation below, within a week, they should call him and read him a counseling about his family obligations, during that counseling session, he will be given an order to start paying support and his chain of command should request proof of payment. If the first officer in his chain of command is not responsive, raise up to the higher HQ, if that still does not work, contact the office of the Inspector General of the Navy and let them know that the chain of command is being unresponsive.
http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/milpersman/1000/1700Morale/Documents/1754-030.pdf
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