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By Alby Schultz, published 2/10/2006The Child Support Agency is a customer relations nightmare.
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You are being a little melodramatic.
The problems you raise with paternity fraud being actionable are almost all questions of evidence. Courts decide such matters on a regular basis.
Yes, some aspects of paternity fraud ought not to be actionable, such as the parental costs paid by a live in father who then discovers he is not the biological father. I agree it would be impractical for courts to sort out whether the father really knew or not, etc, so these expenses are not something the court should involve itself it. However, if a man is not a custodial parent, but is being asked to pay CS then you can be 99% sure he is paying because he believes the child is his. If it turns out otherwise, he ought to be able to recover his money.
Would the kids be disadvantaged by such actions of course, but only in the same way children are disadvantaged when their parents have to pay back stolen money or money received in error. The world can't function on the basis parents are immune from responsibility just because the children might also be affected.
Now on a different issue, does anyone have any ideas how the system could be fairer for people in Nat4's position. I too would like to try again, but finances make it almost impossible.