Child Support from Birth Father, Whom is in Taiwan

My question involves child support in the State of: New York.

Hello,
Recently, I have been pregnant for about 2 months. My boyfriend (24) refuses to cooperate with me and tells me that he wants nothing to do with the child. He has his family contacting me basically threatening me to get rid of the child and harassing me to get an abortion. I want to keep the child because I want my own children. Though I'm still young(21), I would like to give myself a chance to have this child. I've had an abortion previously and I wouldn't like to kill another life. I have just a few questions:

1. What are my legal rights? I want my child's father to be involved with the child but I know legally I cannot force him to.
2. He has dual citizenship (Taiwan, USA). He has recently informed me that he will be going back to Taiwan to take over his family's restaurant business. Will I still be able to recieve child support? What would happen if I am not able to, but he returns to the US? And what will happen if he doesn't return to the US?
3. Since his family owns their own business (cash business) how will the court most likely to determine how child support will be given?

Thank you so much in advance for these questions. Feel free to ask for additional details. I'd love to provide them.

-tiffany

1. You're right. You can't force him to be a father if that's not what he wants.

2. That's going to be tricky. Even if he doesn't leave until after the child is born and you've set up a child support order in the US, it's going to be difficult to enforce it in Taiwan.

3. His family are not responsible financially - at all. If you get an order from the US, it will be based on a straight percentage - assuming the order is out of NY - of Dad's wages, at the very least $50/month or based upon 40 hours @ minimum wage. But again if he leaves the country enforcement may prove nigh on impossible.

I don't know if this matter to you or not. If you can find a way to file and he leaves the country and doesn't pay, his U.S. Passport will be revoked. It will make things complicated for his return to the U.S. even if he tries to return unnotice.

Lawrence, it takes a bit of arrearage before the passport is revoked...and even then, he can easily enter using his Taiwanese passport.

In fact, it would make entering and disappearing even easier :(

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Lawrence, it takes a bit of arrearage before the passport is revoked...and even then, he can easily enter using his Taiwanese passport.

In fact, it would make entering and disappearing even easier :(

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True, but if he is not paying at all then the arrears will add up pretty quickly. Yeah he could use the Taiwanese Passport, but with a revoke U.S. Passport it will still make his life a little more complicated. I am sure when he tries to enter the country some flag must be raised, no matter what passport he uses. I don't ...no....I hope it not easier to get in.

Considering that there won't even BE a child for another 7 months, dad has LOTS of time before (a) any order for support could even be made, and (b) before such an order would start to accumulate arrearages. Dad's effectively got at least a year to a year and a half before he'd have any issues entering/leaving the country.

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True, but if he is not paying at all then the arrears will add up pretty quickly. Yeah he could use the Taiwanese Passport, but with a revoke U.S. Passport it will still make his life a little more complicated. I am sure when he tries to enter the country some flag must be raised, no matter what passport he uses. I don't ...no....I hope it not easier to get in.

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He's a dual citizen, not an immigrant who has naturalized. There will very commonly be no link whatsoever between the issuance of the passports.

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Considering that there won't even BE a child for another 7 months, dad has LOTS of time before (a) any order for support could even be made, and (b) before such an order would start to accumulate arrearages. Dad's effectively got at least a year to a year and a half before he'd have any issues entering/leaving the country.

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True, but my post was in regards about returning in a few years (approx 5) not months. And the OP stated he will be taking over a family business, no telling what his support will be. The revoke of passbook is base on the arrears amount, not the amount of time not paid. True?

You know more about having two passbooks than I. Just doesn't seem right that he would not recieve the same problem any non paying NCP has because he has a dual citzenship and I would think the country security would be just as tight for anyone with, without or having multiple passports.

The point being, how do you link the two? ;)

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The point being, how do you link the two? ;)

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Wouldn't his name be the same on both passport? Isn't one of the questions when applying or renewing for a passport "Do you have another passport from another country?" When I fly in and out of the country, I literally stand a few minutes while someone looking at my passport and reading their computer screen. I am sure there is a lot of information being dislayed on that screen. And I only have 1 passport. I am good looking guy, but not that good looking.

Right - but how do you link obligor John Smith with any other John Smith? Specially if he (for example) obtained the US passport first, and then the other passport in the other country. He wouldn't have lied on the US forms - and we don't even know if there's such a question on the application from the native country. Y'know?

We're getting bogged down here with details - but the point I was trying to make, was that he could feasibly enter the country unaffected by the revocation of his US passport...and disappear, for the most part. :)

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Right - but how do you link obligor John Smith with any other John Smith? Specially if he (for example) obtained the US passport first, and then the other passport in the other country. He wouldn't have lied on the US forms - and we don't even know if there's such a question on the application from the native country. Y'know?

We're getting bogged down here with details - but the point I was trying to make, was that he could feasibly enter the country unaffected by the revocation of his US passport...and disappear, for the most part. :)

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Okay, I got two guys who have two passport working next to me and they both state that if they try to return to the U.S. with just their India Passport, their India Passport has enough information on it to flag the people at the airport that they have and U.S. Passport (i.e. name, date a birth and/or number) and would be demanded to produce the U.S. Passport.

I don't think it as "Feasible" as you think.

Okay I'll give it a rest.... :-)

I said "feasible".

I did not say "probable".

BIG difference. And thank you ;)