When a women is pregnant with another mans baby and then gets married when pregnant who has to pay child support

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   Christopher Minelli

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   Answered November 11, 2009 09:03. The duty of support attaches with the legal father. The law presumes that the husband of the pregnant woman is the father, even if he has actual knowlege that the child is not his, provided they are still married when the child is born. Changing the status of the father for child support actions requires a "paternity action" to be filed in state court. To be sucessful, you will have to show evidence (usually scientific, like a blood or DNA test) that the child is biologically the father's, and not the husband's.
   
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