Perham, MN asked in Family Law and Child Custody for Minnesota

Q: I need to know if I can walk off with my son.

I was never married assign the recognition of parentage a s with his mother child support has been established but yet she's making me go to someplace safe and pay to see my son she's mentally emotionally abusive my son is petrified of her puts me in jail as she lies to law every

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Corwin Kruse
Corwin Kruse
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  • Divorce Lawyer
  • MINNEAPOLIS, MN
  • Licensed in Minnesota

A: I am assuming that child support was formally established via a paternity order. Did the order also grant parenting time? That will control what you can and cannot do as well as how much time you have with the child.

If there is no paternity order (and child support is thus informal), you have no legally-enforceable parenting time and no support obligation.

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