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My question involves paternity law for the State of: Louisiana

The day my child was born his father decided to express to me his dislike for the name I had chosen. Which included my last name since we were not married. He then told me he wanted nothing to do with me or my child and stormed out of the hospital room never to return.
Didn't talk about this stuff BEFORE the baby came?????

I made the decision to not put him on the birth certificate.
Not up to you. Since you weren't married to him, only HE could put himself on the birth certificate. If he didn't put himself there willingly, no action on your part short of a court's order would have put it there against his will.

There has been no contact at all since the first year and that contact was made was by me. I made a few phone calls only that first year and he clearly wasn't interested in having any type of relationship with his son. He has never made a call to me, sent a card, sent money, etc, etc, etc since that last phone call and there has been no physical contact since my child's day of birth. I am not even sure he has ever even held him.
Very sorry for your son that his father has treated him this level of disregard.

Recently someone tried to contact me from his family thru a social networking site. I immediately blocked that person, and I want to make sure he is in no way able to gain any sort of visitation, communication, custody....so I can sleep easy at night.
The only real way to make sure a parent doesn't have a shot at access to their child is to make the child with someone else.

Some state have restrictions, but I find nothing in LA statutes that would prevent him from seeking paternity testing and requesting visitation due to a time bar. If he files a paternity suit, and IS the father, you should brace yourself - because courts, no matter HOW out of the picture a father has been, WANT children to have TWO parents, and are usually willing to bend over backwards to allow absent parents to try to turn things around and establish relationships with their children. Depending on the age of the child, it usually starts with supervised visitation, then gradually moves to unsupervised visits, overnights, weekends, weeks during summer vacation, alternating birthdays and holidays, etc. In other words, if he's the father, and WANTS to fix his past mistake, the court is likely to encourage this unless there is some clear reason why this wouldn't be in the child's long term best interests (such as if he has a long criminal history, history of abuse or crimes against children, etc.). But until and unless he actually BRINGS such a suit (or the state brings one on behalf of the child), he'll remain a legal stranger to the child, and you have no obligation to communicate with him or allow him visitation.