Q: my brother owes 26,000 on child support and the kid not his. How does he clear this up where he owes nothing to a child?
A: I think the better question for your brother to answer is what has he done to clear this up. It takes some time to become $26,000 behind on child support, and it was during that time he should have been doing something. If there is a child support order, he was named the legal father to the child somehow; either 1) he was married to the mother when the child was born, 2) he signed an acknowledgement of paternity, or 3) he received notice to establish paternity and didn't answer, resulting in a default, or did answer by submitting to a DNA test. What he needs to do now is file a revocation of paternity - hopefully he is not time barred by now. Otherwise he will remain, for child support purposes, the child's legal father.
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