To answer the dude’s questions, yes, there are numerous ways to legally establish a parental right without signing an acknowledgment of paternity. I’m pretty sure every state in America has a law on the books that says that the man with whom a woman is cohabitating at the time a baby is born is Is presumed to be the father, though that can be rebutted with evidence.
I was in the gallery in court one time when a case came before the judge in which the child had no birth certificate after a home birth. Simply because the woman had had five or six other kids, felt like everything was going fine, and there was a massive blizzard and power outage at the time of the kid’s eventual of birth. She had the baby at home. They testified that over the years they had made some attempts to fix up the paperwork, but never got it right, running up against the bureaucracy of it. In my state, probate courts have authority to create and amend vital records. They had to put an advertisement in the newspaper before the court hearing to announce that this person was seeking to have a birth certificate made out, so that if anyone knew of a reason why it should not issue, they could come and contest the hearing. Since there was no one there to contest the evidence, that’s basically an automatic win under a preponderance standard. Paternity can be established as much the same way, but usually there is some man there who doesn’t want to be a father to contest it. In the case that both parents want to established paternity, it’s not hard to do.
I guess the hardest part for this guy would be to stop being a a dumb and ignorant scared little baby, and maybe, I don’t know, follow some of the laws he wishes to avail himself to. Availing yourself to law is a surefire way to find yourself under its jurisdiction, even when you are from out of town.
I can’t imagine someone who doesn’t want to fill out a piece of paper to establish paternity would he willing to submit to court for pretty much any reason.
That whole newspaper thing is so outdated. It’s the same in my state to change your name. Nobody reads them anymore so of course nobody is gonna contest.
Last I knew, there was some progress here. Some judges at least were starting to allow notice by publication on social media. Even process, served on Facebook.
A document that serves to recognize a liability and authorize the disbursement of cash.
Yeah, your liability and the disbursement of your cash to someone else - like the parent of the child you're not paying for. They can't even understand the meaning of the sentence they underlined.
I’ve got an even better one: the circle! Yes, it predates even the enigmatic hexagram! Want your mind blown? Even the Universe follows its laws! Look into the sky and behold the moon! In the holy shape of the circle…
Aww, shit. I can’t keep this crap going for long before I lose interest in mocking these asshats.
The Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.
Oh man, wait until I tell you about lines. They can be straight, or curved. Curved enough, they make a circle. Three straight ones, and you get a triangle. And they’refuckingeverywhere.
I always thought it would be a fun short story, probably just a dialogue between two people, where someone convinces the dean of a European art school that this young kid who’s applying isn’t great yet, but he shows promise and could be molded into a great artist and at the end, it turns out it’s a time traveler and the kid is Hitler.
A friend of mine had a sphinx that was the most aggressively friendly cat I have ever met. His parents kept their house pretty cold, so the theory was that he would snuggle anyone who would let him to stay warm. That might have been true initially, but he really seemed to like people as he got older. He would purr and rub on complete strangers. One of the friendliest cats I have ever met.
My cat gets more cuddly in the winter, even though the temperature difference isn't actually that big in the house. She doesn't limit herself just to winter cuddles though.
Aggressively friendly is a good way to put it. I’m the type of person to keep the house temp at 80°F and my sphynx still wants to cuddle. He’d be out in the sun on a warm rock in 100° weather if he could, though, but I think he just enjoys the company, too.
What is this mysterious symbol? What did it mean? Why did it suddenly arise across civilizations in the late 1900s, then just as mysteriously vanish? Find out on: Lost Mysteries of The Schoolyard on the History Channel.
It sounds like the father is trying to find a way to get the child paperwork without having to do this other stuff though? Like the goal is to get the paperwork (birth certificate, passport, etc) without whatever declaration of fatherhood doc he’s referring to.
Amazing. People downvote questions now. Wtf is that all about? It’s almost like it’d be impossible for someone with zero prior knowledge or interest in US/Texan law to have got on the internet…
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My dad and my brother both have passports and travel regularly.
I can’t get a passport because my dad refuses to give me legal access to his birth certificate to prove that one of my parents was a citizen when I was born.
Why? Because according to the him, the government shouldn’t need that information from our family, so he refuses on principal.
I can’t get a passport without that document.
I can try and take my dad to small claims court, but I don’t have the money for that, my relationship with my dad is civil and functional aside from this one issue, and getting lawyers involved will destroy the family, all I want is a passport.
He needs a psychiatrist, not a lawyer. Because he makes no sense.
There isn’t really enough advice or support out there for children of whack job idiots.
Sticking to his principles of what he thinks he should have to do, even though his inaction is harming others. He sounds just like those nonvoter people who hate Biden for supporting genocide so they’re gonna let a worse genocide happen.
It’s so baffling because this is really one of the only things he has an issue with. Other than my passport, he doesn’t talk or act like he has any major issues with the government as a process.
I will say, I’m not too worried that his anti-gov opinions will result in great levels of harm. My country had had a conservative party in power for some time now. I also hate the current government. My dad marches at the fortnightly pro-palestine rally in our city, and he attends antifa and pro queer events with me and my mum. Last year he phoned me to get information about the socialist party because after years of voting for the labour/workers party he’s going harder left. He values my political opinion. He’s socially progressive (despite having the wrong vocabulary to express his opinions, nothing funnier than an old bloke saying “what is everyone’s problem with fags reading books to kids!? It’s so wholesome”)
And I would say he’s masking some of deep rooted misogyny or something and just wants to prevent his female kid from accessing basic government services.
But he’s got no issues with women and non men having passports, and in every other aspect of my life he is supportive and wants me to succeed…he also wants me to travel, he keeps saying he’ll pay for my holiday, but I tell him I don’t need money, just his birth certificate, and he continues to say “no you don’t need that, you just need your birth certificate”
I’ve taken him to the passport office with me and had the admin worker tell him to how face he needs to give me his birth certificate, and he told her “no, that’s unnecessary” and then he walked out and waited for me in the car.
It all started in the last 5 years, in 2019. In my 20s, he had no issues whatsoever with anything I did, I wasn’t in a financial position to travel so I never looked into getting a passport till I was almost 30, and suddenly dad didn’t want the government in his business but only in the context of me requiring to prove that he’s my parent.
This is very true, though I don’t really care how the family gets destroyed, I don’t want to have a destroyed family at this point in my life right now because I need their support in other ways, so if I can avoid pulling the pin on a series of events I know my father will choose to react poorly to, I want to save myself that stress.
I know my mental health could not handle a family break down right now.
Can you just wait until he is not home and just find it and use it and then return it before he knows what’s up? I’m guessing your mother is no longer with him or you would get her to get it or talk him into it right?
That would be breaking and entering, and theft, and I also can’t be certain he even has a copy at his house, I also need to get it witnessed and notorised for my application, which is harder to do stealthily with my disabilities.
I do not want to break the law in order to get a passport of the country I’m a citizen of.
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