apparently it’s a conviction under a general court martial:

It’s been a while, but I thought having a court martial on your record was equivalent to a felony conviction, with all of the same restrictions and such?

fuck...

meh. I mean, if this happens, granted, I’ll be a little envious it didn’t happen early enough for me to take advantage of it directly, but I don’t need a direct benefit after the fact (nevermind that the paperwork would be a likely nightmare...)

I hope he didn’t pay much for school, because he sure didn’t learn much...

wow, there are a lot of assholes against this simply because they won’t directly benefit.

nah.

This is absurd, we really need a law or an amendment or something making it illegal to require people to lie.  

yeah, I think that’s one of the greater overall problems - this was a civil suit, so she wasn’t eligible for state-sponsored representation, which pretty much puts her at the mercy of her accuser and his lawyers.

If he were actually parenting, and being a part of the kids lives, then he may have some claim to visitation or custody. Not an expert, but I believe this happens fairly often regardless of genetic relation, with adopted and step kids and such. That gets really messy.

person A didn’t carry the kids to term, and didn’t care for them, therefore I don’t see them having any claim whatsoever, let alone anything approaching an equal claim to person B

someone should not end up in jail because of a stupid civil suit.

Dads can be important, but they aren’t inherently important because they happen to be a dad

In the hypothetical you give, I don’t see person A having any claim to request a paternity test. If person B changes their mind, and want’s to involve person A later, and person A doesn’t want to be involved, then maybe I could see a paternity test. But for person A to come out of the blue later on, they don’t have…

what the hell do you mean? She is already raising the kids, she didn’t kidnap them from some rando. This case is pretty much the opposite of that, it’s the court deciding some rando get’s to force her kids to take paternity tests to prove that they aren’t biologically his. If a father wants to remain in his kid’s, and…

She carried the kids, she was raising them, even if this guy supplied some of the DNA, what difference does it make? He’s not a father in the cultural sense, and it’s clear the mother doesn’t want him in her/their lives.

She was never informed that there was a court order for a paternity test.

why should she have to have her kids take a paternity test?

srsly?