Q: How do i respond to being served with custody papers from someone who is not on my daughters birth certificate?
My daughters' possible father was in prison for the first year of her life, when he got out it has been nothing but a fight trying to get him to honor any kind of agreement we had made. Given his past I felt he need to show that he wasn't going to go back to his old ways. After finding out about the most recent incident when my daughter was put in a very unsafe situation I told him our arrangement needed to be modified and he wasn't going to have overnights for a while since he thought doing drugs and alcohol and being violent around her was okay. He refused and I was recently served with custody papers. I'm not sure how to respond as he isn't even on the birth certificate and there is a good possibility that he isn't even the father.
A: Ask for a paternity test to determine if he is indeed the father.
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