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Family

May 9, 2000

Support Law Traps Men Who Aren't Biological Fathers

Forum: For The People By Jeffrey A. Lowe After much public debate, the California legislature passed new legislation last year that promised to reform the establishment and enforcement of child support.

By Jeffrey A. Lowe
        After much public debate, the California legislature passed new legislation last year that promised to reform the establishment and enforcement of child support. Unfortunately, this new legislation did not address the most egregious and shameful injustice in this area of the law, which occurs when a man who is not the biological father of the child is forced by the district attorney t...

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