Q: My children's father I divorced 8 years ago. I want to modify child support. Now he wants a paternity test. Can he?
My children's father I divorced 8 years ago in Washington state. We have 2 daughters. The oldest is not his and he knows this, although we have raised her as his own. She is 16 now and still doesn't know. I now live in New Hampshire. He is in Missouri. I would like to modify child support because of a change in financial circumstances. He threatened to make it known the oldest is not his through a paternity test so that he doesnt have to pay more money for child support. We already have a support order from when he divorced me in Washington state. He claimed both children were his. Can he legally unclaim a child in NH? And also, the oldest is his favorite of the 2 children and they are closer than him and the youngest.
A: I believe that he can request challenge paternity, however, he may run into a problem if he testified under oath that he was the biological father.
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