My question involves paternity law for the State of: Colorado
So to avoid writing a novel I'm just going to try and give simple facts about what I'm asking and hopefully you guys can tell me which are important and I can expand on those.
- My sister is married to an Active Duty military member.
- They have been separated for years, but haven't gotten a divorce yet.
- She is 6 months pregnant with a physically abusive and controlling man's baby.
- There is an extremely small chance it isn't this man's child, but there is 100% chance it is not her current husbands.
- Her husband has agreed to continue holding off the divorce until the after the baby is born, but most likely won't "help" beyond that.
- My mother and my sister are afraid of the man, but don't want the baby to not know her father.
- The man's family has a lot of money and good lawyers. We do not.
- He has already demanded that she work full time (instead of part time, which is her plan), that the baby alternate spending one week with her and then one week with him (from day 1), and has already demanded how much child support she will be paying him because she makes more money then him.
- I don't know exactly what my sister wants to do, but I just want to make sure she knows all of her options. (She has stated recently that if she could go back so wouldn't have even told him, but wants a family so much that she had been over looking the dangers of the relationship until recently)
Like I said, I don't know whats relevant and whats not. Personally I would hope that if he petitions the court for a paternity test, that she would admit that he is abusive and that she is afraid of him, that they wouldn't force her, but I'm not sure that's true or that she would even do that. So yeah, what do you guys see? What are the options if he gets a test and he is the father(95% sure he is)?

