Miami Paternity Lawyers

Paternity

If you have children without marriage, an action for paternity can establish the child support and time sharing schedule order for the parties. A petition and answer is filed, and mandatory disclosure is required, just like in a divorce. Discovery is also permitted.

Paternity Disestablishment

Recently, Florida law provides for paternity disestablishment. It is gender specific and provides only that only the alleged father may disestablish paternity. When children are born during a marriage, there is a presumption that the children are the children of the legal father and mother. It may be difficult for a father to believe that he has not fathered the child(ren) he has raised as his own. This needs to be raised soon in the divorce proceeding or the law may penalize the legal father and forever bar him from considering that possibility if it is not addressed early.

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