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Do you have to be a child's biological parent to be forced to pay child support?

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  • 24skins
    24skins Posts: 1,773 Forumite
    I'm really impressed by your willingness to support your ex-stepchild, since this is such a grey area perhaps you should get legal advice and get some sort of agreement drawn up with the mother?
    Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
  • Orville
    Orville Posts: 1,906 Forumite
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    Batman_100 wrote: »
    Thanks. I'm only asking because I received a strongly worded text message from my ex yesterday saying that if I don't make a more 'realistic contribution' she would consider court action. She knows full well I'm not the father (my ex was already heavily pregnant when I first met her), but she claims there's been a recent change in the law and that because I lived with her and her daughter in a 'family relationship', she can claim for child support.

    Is she just trying to blackmail me or does she have a serious case?

    Tell her in a very strongly worded text to Jog on.....
  • 24skins wrote: »
    I'm really impressed by your willingness to support your ex-stepchild, since this is such a grey area perhaps you should get legal advice and get some sort of agreement drawn up with the mother?

    That's already been discussed, but I doubt there's anything a solicitor could do for us. Because I'm not her daughters biological father, I'm under no legal obligation to pay maintaince and she's under no legal obligation to allow contact. It all relies on good will and understanding.
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