Q: I just found out I'm a father ten years after the fact. Someone else has been paying child support. Am I obligated?
I was dating a girl, she dumped me for another guy, finds out she is pregnant a few weeks after we broke up and after getting together with the other guy. The other guy personally told me it was his child. They break up, he I'm assuming signed whatever legal documents to claim he is the father and has been paying child support. Now he is planning to get a DANA test. If it turns out he is not the father (albeit I should get a DNA test too) and I turn out to be the biological father, am I legally obligated to pay child support to a child I didn't think was mine for ten years?
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