[tinykim]

I would like those of you who were following my first thread and who might need the same information which I sought that, at least in my case, paternity was NOT established. Apparently since my late ex had not received a summons either by personal service or by mail, paternity was not established by default. I don't know what was in the piece of mail that he did receive from what I thought was the California equivalent of Child Protective Services. I contacted his sister and she told me that the woman in question (a friend of the family) HAD put my husband's name on the child's birth certificate but his family refused to have anything to do with her until she named the correct man. After several years, a paternity test was eventually performed and he was proved to be the child's father when the boy was 16. Unfortunately, the father, a career criminal, is in jail and the child, now 20, is there also - still with my ex's name. Probably messed up because of his mother, poor thing. Of course all of this drama started before "Navarro", the landmark case in California which ultimately changed the shoddy way in which paternity was established. Many lives were changed because of the previous method, and many were not changed for the better, as evidenced by the child here.

My sons are STILL not interested in opening probate so I will just let it go until they change their minds. As I said, we are moving to Brasil soon (Portugese is spoken there and that is how we spell BRASIL!! ), so perhaps they will think better of it before they all move there.

Thanks again to EVERYONE who helped me. A special shout-out to "deadlock"!!

[COLOR="SeaGreen"]"Going Back To Rio! de Janiero!"[/COLOR]

[deadlock]

I would like those of you who were following my first thread and who might need the same information which I sought that, at least in my case, paternity was NOT established. Apparently since my late ex had not received a summons either by personal service or by mail, paternity was not established by default. I don't know what was in the piece of mail that he did receive from what I thought was the California equivalent of Child Protective Services. I contacted his sister and she told me that the woman in question (a friend of the family) HAD put my husband's name on the child's birth certificate but his family refused to have anything to do with her until she named the correct man. After several years, a paternity test was eventually performed and he was proved to be the child's father when the boy was 16. Unfortunately, the father, a career criminal, is in jail and the child, now 20, is there also - still with my ex's name. Probably messed up because of his mother, poor thing. Of course all of this drama started before "Navarro", the landmark case in California which ultimately changed the shoddy way in which paternity was established. Many lives were changed because of the previous method, and many were not changed for the better, as evidenced by the child here.

My sons are STILL not interested in opening probate so I will just let it go until they change their minds. As I said, we are moving to Brasil soon (Portugese is spoken there and that is how we spell BRASIL!! ), so perhaps they will think better of it before they all move there.

Thanks again to EVERYONE who helped me. A special shout-out to "deadlock"!!

[COLOR="SeaGreen"]"Going Back To Rio! de Janiero!"[/COLOR]

Glad you found the answer to the paternity question! Wow, good for you!

Hope you enjoy your move. It sounds like a great place to live. A friend of mine, her father an American oil comany employed in Brasil, was born in Basil. She spoke only Spanish and Portuguese when her family returned to the United States. Her teachers were forever correcting her "mis"pelling of BraZil.