Can I End Child Support if My Daughter is Pregnant
My question involves child support in the State of: North Carolina..My 17 year old is pregnant. Her mother allowed boyfriend to move in and is still living with them. Do I still have to pay child support? Is an emancipation by giving birth recognized in NC? I know not many states do.
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Nope, babies having babies does not emancipate them. It means they need more parental supervision. Sorry.
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My question involves child support in the State of: North Carolina..My 17 year old is pregnant. Her mother allowed boyfriend to move in and is still living with them. Do I still have to pay child support? Is an emancipation by giving birth recognized in NC? I know not many states do.
To expand, there are NO states in which pregnancy equals legal emancipation.
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I know not many states do.
"Not many" translates to None.
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Do I still have to pay child support?
Unless your court order allows you to financially abandon your child if she becomes pregnant, of COURSE you do.
Good lord, what kind of father are you? Or decent man, for that matter?
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Theres a lot more to this situation than my daughter being pregnant. Just didn't feel the need to pull it all out there.
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Theres a lot more to this situation than my daughter being pregnant. Just didn't feel the need to pull it all out there.
It doesn't matter.
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Theres a lot more to this situation than my daughter being pregnant.
Irrelevant. She could be an axe murderer, meth dealer, and prostitute, and you STILL wouldn't get a "Get out of supporting my child free" card.
You helped make the child, you're legally responsible for helping support her - NO MATTER WHAT - until she reaches the age of majority. Man up.
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Doesn't change the answers one whit.
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So I took my daughter to DSS to see if she could go ahead and get WIC, food stamps and etc for when baby comes in Feb. We were told that she could not recieve these benefits because she was a minor, but once the baby was born she then would be considered an adult and could then apply. I am close with my daughter. As far as the child support is concerned I have always paid. To bad her mother doesn't use the money for her. Mother has drug problem and as soon as she gets the child support she disappears until money is gone. They consently move because she doesn't keep rent paid. I've told my daughter many times that she can come live with me. She doesn't want to for whatever reason. I believe she doesn't want to move in with me because there will be rules. Most of the time she stays with one of her older sisters when they are in one of those gotta move times.They have had to move 5 times so far this year. Its a real messed up situtation. Besides payinig her mother I still give my daughter money for clothes, food, gas etc. Its like I'm just giving her mother money to party on and I'm still supporting my daughter on the side. So rather I pay the child support or not I will still take care of my daughter. I just can't see continuning to pay her mother and my daughter not being able to recieve the help she needs from social services. I'm still waiting to see if the father is going to hang around after baby comes.
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Since you have refused to step up and take control of the situation where your daughter may be exposed to dangerous or unhealthy situations, you get the right to continue to pay support to the mother. You have failed in being a father and requiring your daughter to understand that life had rules me appear to have purchased her love with all the money you give her without having to earn it.
The statement from DSS does not mean she will be legally emancipated. It simply means that due to rules, law, and policy, she will be eligible for assistance due to her having a child. Not the same thing.
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And since she's living under these circumstances, why haven't you gone into court to take custody of the child?????
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We were told that she could not recieve these benefits because she was a minor, but once the baby was born she then would be considered an adult and could then apply.
I doubt you were told she'd be "considered an adult" once the baby is born. Eligible for benefits for the child, sure, but giving birth does NOT emancipate you in any state of the Union.
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I just can't see continuning to pay her mother
You're not "paying her mother". You are providing reimbursement for the costs of feeding, clothing, and sheltering your child. This is not rocket science.
I do not understand you people who come in here with a gripe against your ex, but you always want to take it out on your child by trying to weasel out of your legally required financial support. And now, when your daughter needs the support the most, you want to stop paying? Seriously, what in the seven blazing Hells is wrong with you?
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And since she's living under these circumstances, why haven't you gone into court to take custody of the child?????
Oh, darling, that costs money.
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I'd love to hear from someone - anyone - who can truly prove that being the CP is cheaper than paying CS to the other parent.
Really.
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I'd love to hear from someone - anyone - who can truly prove that being the CP is cheaper than paying CS to the other parent.
Really.
Maybe for someone who is paying an extraordinarily high amount of child support...for the average person, no way.
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Then again, if that parent (I'm thinking Kobe Bryant-like salary) is earning enough to be paying a huge amount of child support, the child is likely enjoying a much higher standard of living to begin with ;)