Q: Is it legal in Oregon to force one father to pay for his and another fathers child?
I currently am going thru custody an essentially did not like the outcome the court gave me. But essentially what I'm getting at is that im wondering if it's legal for a father in oregon to sign his parental rights away, so that way he does not have to pay child support. But I myself did not sign such papers let alone ever heard of a thing is having to pay an unfair amount of support because the mother is playing victim regardless of the proof of neglect I have given. But besides that point, I'm baby daddy #2 put of 3 and the mother is paying child support for her oldest which she lost custody of. An out of the two younger ones mine being the middle child I am paying child support. Is the state suppose to be making the other father of the youngest pay child support instead of making only one father pay? Doesnt seem ethically or morally right to do so. It's like punishing one parent for her life choices and that she now has three kids with three different people.
A: You cannot sign away your responsibility to pay child support unless the child is adopted by another person. Your monthly support obligation is based upon your and mother's incomes, and should take into account that mother has two "non-joint" children. This factor could actually increase your child support obligation. Whether the father of one of mother's other children is actually paying child support should not affect your child support obligation under the presumed amount of support.
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