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    Default Foreign country asking for child support

    Im not sure if you can direct me one way or the other. Currently residing in Tennessee with my husband who has now been petioned for a paternity test for a child in Germany. THey would like child support based on Tennesee law. Husband already paying 39 % of income to previous children. How does that figure into the payments to Germany? Will my income also be figured in? Germany is basically telling us if he agrees to paternity and agrees to an amounth they would ony want 127.00 a month.

    Thanks for any advice

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    Default German Child Support Order

    So the support order would be entered in Germany, but they want to utilize Tennessee's child support formula? And then they would seek enforcement of the order through Tennessee?

    You can obtain the Tennessee child support guidelines and worksheets from the Tennessee Department of Human Services. From those materials, you should be able to figure out what your husband would be obligated to pay under the guidelines, and whether $127 is a good deal.

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    Yes the support would be entered in Germany, but the order would be enforced by Tennessee. Im starting to see that this is going to be complicated. Paternity has not yet been established. That is my first concern. Do you know anything about how custody works in the situation that the mother if foreign.

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    Default International Custody Involving Germany

    Germany is predisposed to grant custody to a parent who will raise a child speaking the German language, and within the German culture. The child is in Germany and has never been to the U.S., so any custody litigation would occur there.

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