I have been with my man for five years and were recently married he cheated on me and there is a child involved he wants nothing to do with the child pays child support and wishes to sign his rights over what is the procedure to do so?

Is the child of the marriage? Does he admit the kid is his? Is his name on the child's birth certificate. What state are you in? All determining factors in the next step for you.


You can petition the Family Court to order support. There is nothing a biological father can do to make a child not his. He may be able to avoid physical contact, but he cannot under the law avoid financial support.

He can't sign his rights over unless someone else is willing to adopt the child. DNA might be ordered but it might be too late to change things.

Even if by some fluke he is able to sign his rights over he will still have to pay support (unless the child is adopted).

Yeah, well, I do NOT want him to have nothing to do with child support.

If HE is not supporting his kid (that he has because he couldn't keep it in his pants), then *I*, as a taxpayer, end up doing it.

Why should *I* pay for his lack of responsibility?

The time to worry about child support was BEFORE having sex. Now I hope you live in a state where he pays child support until the kid is out of college.

You go and get a child support order, he does not have to file for any vists if he does not want them.. You can ask for full legal and physcial custody.

He can of course latter ask for visits but if he does not want anything to do with child, he won't

Actually, Chuck--I get the impression that he's back with the OP, but the woman he cheated with had his child---but now he's back with his old girlfriend, he's trying to make her happy by ignoring his child by the woman he cheated on her with.

And sure at some point 15 years down the road, he will "see the light" and wish that he had done things differently. At this time the child, may or may not want any involvement from a father he/she never knew.