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How do you react when you learn that you’re not the biological parent of your 11-year-old child?
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The man found out that his 11-year-old wasn’t his son after he did a DNA test because the kid didn’t look like him
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11 years later, the man noticed that his son was starting to look like his ex’s lover, whom she had cheated on him with all those years prior. So, the OP decided to redo the paternity test. A DNApaternity testusually uses a sample from a person’s cheek swab. These tests are extremely accurate, as it’s reported they can show the results with 99.9% accuracy. After the OP did such a test, it turned out that his son wasn’t actually his.
So, the OP decided to try to get his legal obligations to the child removed. In other words, he wants to be removed from the birth certificate. He notes that he doesn’t want to abandon the child. He just doesn’t want to have any legal obligations to him so as not to give his ex any power.
The lawyer assured the man that a felony was committed against him. Sadly, no prosecutors in his state were willing to take on this case.That’s how the man became the OP of the Reddit post — he came online to ask for netizens’ help on what he should do in this situation. The woman is clearly guilty, and he has all the evidence, but no one is willing to take the case.
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Let’s be honest: random people online aren’t the best choice for advice on legal questions. Many of them didn’t really provide any proper legal advice. They only speculated about the details of the situation. For example, someone said that it is possible that the paternity test that was done 11 years ago was a home one and not a legally recognized one.
On the other hand, sometimes netizens are good with moral advice. And that’s what some of them served this time. In fact, there was one comment that especially stood out — this commenter said that the man should separate the child from his mother’s actions. The pre-teen didn’t do anything wrong, and he should not be punished for the way his mother deceived the OP. After all, in this case, he’s still the boy’s father because he’s present in his life, and it doesn’t matter that they don’t share any genes. So, according to this commenter, the OP should stop saying that the woman “stole” 11 years from him, as these words sound like he doesn’t love the kid.
Some people online acted as the man’s moral compass and told him not to punish the child for his mother’s crimes
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