Q: Good Day, Is their a way i can take a dna blood test for a child I'm on child support for, that i have never saw?
2004 was told by ex girlfriend i wasnt the father of the child. Come September 2014 I got served papers while living in another state. I Filled out the paperwork saying i want blood test for the child. I dont think that I'm the father. Come January 2015, money start coming out of my check,and currently still is . With no kind of certification saying this is my child. Now come Nov 2020 police come to my job and serve me papers saying she wants more money. I'm filing these papers out now as we speak. I've never seen the child, or talked to her since 2004. Someone else was on the birth certificate. I never got to take a Dna test i asked for. Money just started coming out my check at $125 a week. I was told to seek a lawyers advice before I send these papers in. Any advice could help, if he's mine, I would at least like to see what he looks like. There are things i noticed with her. That she was already pregnant when we just started dating. Whennshe said he wasnt mine, I believed her
A:
You need to look at the pleadings that were filed in 2014-15 to see what the determination was regarding paternity. Depending on what they say you may have a problem because you have waited so long to challenge the finding (at least in court). It is very difficult to recover child support that has already been paid. You can definitely ask the court to allow you to start seeing the child. In Florida we call this timesharing. I recommend that you get a local lawyer to help you with this.
Good luck.
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