AUSTIN, Texas (AVfM) Legislators have changed a law that prevented victims of paternity fraud from challenging child support obligations. The landmark legislation took six years and three congressional sessions to complete.
According to the old Texas law, a man is legally a father if any child is born during his marriage, regardless of whether he is or isn’t the biological father. This resulted in many men paying child support after a divorce for children that were a product of their wife’s infidelity.
No genetic test was required to establish paternity. If fact, paternity tests proving no biological connection between the legal father and the child were considered irrelevant to the issue of child support.
Under the old Texas law, he was forced to support that child financially, and had no course of action to terminate the parent-child relationship even though he was a proven victim of paternity fraud.
The new law changes all this. It allows men to use the results of a genetic test to prove they are not fathers, and to petition Texas courts to terminate the parent-child relationship and child support. Courts will now be mandated to terminate child support orders and end legal sanctions against the victims of paternity fraud.
The law includes a grace period until September of 2012 for men who were victims of paternity fraud to make their cases before the court. Men who discover they are victims of paternity fraud after September 1, 2012 will have one year from the time of discovery to petition the courts.
The new law effectively terminates child support payments and requires the state to pay back any support already paid at the time of the petition. It is possible, then, that those women who have been fraudulently extorting monies from those targeted by their scams, will become liable to the state for restitution of the money they have illicitly collected.
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Wow Blink Blink. did I read this right?
Don’t expect the state of Texas to try to claim money from women who committed paternity fraud.
That would be unchivalrous or sexist or hold women to a standard of accountability equal to men and as we know that is just wrong.
Besides, Rick Perry needs the female vote to get elected Prez. If he is deemed to be unchivalrous to women why that would kill his chances.
Perhaps, but I would never have expected Texas to pass this law to begin with. Oh, and I need to add, the economy sucks really bad. It is perhaps the one issue more important than women to the average voter.
I am betting we are going to see news stories about poor women who are having to cough up a bunch of money they conned out of their husbands and boyfriends.
I am betting we are going to see news stories about poor women who are having to cough up a bunch of money they conned out of their husbands and boyfriends.
Schadenfreude
Deep Joy
Somebody should call Hitler collect and ask exactly how the wind chill factor is in Hell because saying that this is out of left field is the understatement of the young new century.
Let freedom ring.
Aside from the obvious benefits of becoming Paul’s neighbor, if there was ever a reason to move to Texas, this is it.
TDOM
In the immortal words of Lyle Lovett, “That’s right, you’re not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway.”
I’d be damned proud to have you for a neighbor.
Well, that’s certainly a better welcome than I got when I first came to CA back in the 80′s. A quite popular bumper sticker at that time read : “Welcome to California. Now go home.”
TDOM
I don’t know how many other states practice this unjust law, but it also needs to be changed here in the state of Florida. It is simple common sense. I can’t believe it takes educated people to make laws about this problem.
Great news! This is totally excellent…roll on many reforms world wide
It’s just fucking amazing that you have to make that a law. To not force a man who isn’t a father to pay child support…
It’s laughable.
But we should kiss the ground of Texas for coming back to us into the world of reasonability. Yay for Texas.
“It’s just fucking amazing that you have to make that a law. To not force a man who isn’t a father to pay child support…
It’s laughable.”
It’s as sick as sick gets. Is their someway that it could be argued as not being slavery or heinous extortion and violent oppression? Rhetorical.
That said, this development is really big news and reason for celebration. Paternity testing must be made standard practice upon request.
“Presumed fatherhood” has been around for years in several states.
Yes it is amazing, and it’s what ends up putting many men in jail.
This is good news and a tiny step in the right direction. I don’t think many other states are on board with this new law. It is just totally screwed up that men in the United States were ever forced to pay child support (read: woman support) to their wives, to pay for HER mistake of adultery for the next 18 years or more, in the first place.
Could anyone here imagine if the opposite scenario were true? Suppose that if, for the last several decades, when a man cheated on his wife and got another woman pregnant, his wife would be forced at gun point, with the threat of prison, by the government to work dangerous jobs to pay money to her husband, of which he was under no legal obligation to prove that he even spent it on the child. Now, imagine that women were killing themselves by means up to and including self-immolation in public to protest this horrible treatment and the news media did its best to keep the stories swept under the rug.
In addition, to do a complete reversal of the situation, women in this reversed situation would also be required to keep their mouths shut about it, or they would face shaming language from other women who had been conditioned to reinforce their own dehumanization, as a class, to a mere utilitarian provider for men, as well as face firings, rejection from all men, making affection from a man, ANY MAN, nearly impossible due to their having a “bad attitude toward men”, public humiliation, and beatings from other women for “disrespecting men”.
Be aware Republican’s have controlled the Texas state senate since late last year. There was a “mini-shellacking” of sorts there in November. Most of the democrats hail from the urban centers (Dallas, Houston, Austin) and a few predominately hispanic areas (there are also solidly republican hispanic areas as well).
It would be interesting to know the history of this and who was behind it, who sponsored it, etc.
I can’t find the bill number on their crappy site.
We have an attorney researching it now and he will be providing an article for the site.
An attorney, a public relations expert, a psychologist, a journalist, one JTO and a band of motivated foot soldiers. We’re gathering a quorum for a men’s rights organization and I don’t even see Zed’s circular firing squad reloading!
Like dying ducks in a thunderstorm we’re going to see a procession of tear stained woe begone little street urchins coming in from the cold.
Yes, they will be the brand new huddled masses, each clasping their shivering and hungry bubs.
You can hear them already as they stand in front of their mirrors practicing the right postures and wobbly cadence of a desperate voice. The quivering eyes rounded with fear, the ends of their limply flattened hairs split with a dryer and mismatched socks on shoes with no laces.
You can see them jammed in “Rent-a-rickety-bomb” autos risking their lives as they trundle their way to the spheres of influence. The kid in the back seat sucking on a soggy rusk, and a moth eaten dog on the floor curled in a frightened ball on the floor as it’s sensed in it’s tiny world the fear of it’s master.
You can feel the empathy humidify in the air at the “Bureau of Justice” as all public service eyes in the room swivel her way only to swell and moisten. All ears cupped her way like tulips to the sun as she drops great tears like watery plums on the front desk there.
The government issued tissues will be plucked from their box with the blur of of a hamster on a wheel, and the muddy hem of her sun bleached floral dress will bounce with every sob.
Then, at that moment the dam will bust. With the sureness of a monkey with a key turning in it’s back the crowd will surge forward like a great threshing machine. A tremendous flesh wall of helping arms and hands and shoulders vacant for leaning on will collapse all around her. At last, the duck has placed the last feather in the nest, she is home once again.
It would be wrong of me to ruin the picture for those helping this poor soul. If it makes them feel the fuzzies, then who am I to say that this duck is really a chainsaw in a dress ?
On the money Dr F. As sure as eggs is eggs. Feminine wiles will ooze from the cornered and desperate. Vast repositories of manipulative antics have been reserved for this rainy day. The diddums brigade will know no shame when they sniff out the soft bellies of the chivalrous to rescue them from those mean men seeking fairness, equity, and…stuff…
They won’t go down without a fight – a flurry of passive-aggression. They’ll pull out every trick in the book. Like orphans in the storm, they’ll be trying to pull on heartstrings with all the dexterity of little perfumed Yehudi’s. This is going to be quite a spectacle. Enjoy.
I don’t know about that (I am more optimistic).
Having heard about aid being refused men in Haiti, 80-90% homelss are men, 98% work deaths being male etc etc, when I see adverts about “For just 2 pounds a month you can…” I have no difficulty turning the channel, ignoring the advert.
That type of advert keeps doubling down, I think that people are maybe becoming immune to it.
Same as the global warming scam, there’s only so many times you can say “it’s worse than we thought, ‘X’ will happen in 10 years unless you live in a yurt and become a vegan”
Once the sheeple see that some others (MRM) openly state “fuck ‘em” over the alimoney withdrawl, I think they’ll start to think about what’s actually fair…
Hallelujah! praise the Texas legislature!
the tide is truing and its great to watch it com in!
This is outstanding! One of the major problems in our society is that we fail to make women responsible for their own reproductive behavior. Now that the ball is rolling to abolish paternity fraud we can move on to parity of reproductive rights between men and women. If we do this families will be stronger, children will be happier and men will no longer be vulnerable to reproductive slavery and exploitation.
BRAVO!!! Finally one for the boys. I don’t care how powerful [they] may be now, their fortress is not built of moral rectitude but of lies, deceits, fraud, and wicked contrivance. I have no doubt in my mind that fortress will come tumbling down by the weight of its own deeds.
Not bad, I guess the next step is for Texas to expand the jail sentences for false rape accusers.
Agreed brother. Not just jail sentences, but a punishment that fits the crime. If the bitch is believed, and a man is arrested, and later exonerated, the slit needs to have the same sentencing guidelines as whatever her lies got the man charged with, and the judge must jail her for a minimum of whatever the man spent in prison. The innocence project is freeing men with DNA evidence for crimes they never committed, and many of these men have spent years in prison. These bitches need to get more than 30 days or a suspended sentence. I say let them do the same amount of time. It’s only fair.
Lol, just wait till NOW hear about this, the response should make for some comedy gold.
This could be a harbinger of things to come …as I last recall, the city of Austin is considered a blue dot in a red state…meaning a very liberal mindset (a double edge sword) which is surprising because Feminism aka women’s issues, seems to be one of the few if not only ideological doctrines unchallenged and considered by most liberals before a decision is made on any other legislative enactments that may possibly subvert any of it’s advantages. Men’s activists, as small a number as they may be (for now) appear to be making inroads. One can only imagine what progress will be made in improving the lives of men once the number of activists are increased and it will. Big score.
I love Oklahoma but man you go to love Texas. Nice people, big steaks and now it seems accountability for the fleecing she whore. Im moving back someday and I will stay this time.
I like Tejas, the people, the women were friendly, not dismissive and rude like in many northern areas. They still believe in manners and a certian decorum.
Problem for me was the climate. 100 plus degrees from May until Oct. You’re inside, in A/C all summer. The heat and humidity is relentless and oppressive and its windy. ANd in the winter when its cold its REALLY cold, the kind that goes right thru you, again because of the humidity. 40 feels like 25. 30 is intense and ice comes easy.
Depends on what part of TX you’re in. West is Desert, East are Pine Trees… I live in DFW, so there’s a little bit of everything here. Big City Dallas to the East, Cow Town Fort Worth to the west and then Hipster-ville Austin to the south
It’s probably one of the few areas that has all of the seasons…except they sometimes get mixed up…This summer was a bit of an anomaly, It’s always hot in the summers, but we’re not going to have 70+ days of 100+ degree weather and no rain every year…
Go Texas!! now all they need to do is to punish the wife accordingly.
I have never met anyone who was familar with the term paternity fraud. And I have mentioned it to nearly 100 men. It is so irritating to have to define this term for men over and over again. After I define it, the conversation is over. The guy I am talking to quits talking. Period. Now, I just direct people to this site, Angry Harry, and ManWomanMyth and avoid dialogue. To my knowledge, no one has done as I suggested. Several guys have dropped me from their contacts. People, I have learned, simply dont comment on certain topics. I have seen rage in their eyes, or they just simply stopped smiling, just an instant before they went silent. And, just like that, I am the guy everyone avoids. They will, however, talk about deadbeat dads, date rape, and male perpetrated domestic violence with vivid details about what they would do to a son of a bitch who hit a woman for ANY reason. Sometimes I miss those blue pill days. But there aint no going back. I dont get out much anymore. All the bars around here have ladies night where I am penalized for being male anyway. What a shithole american college towns are.
delivery is important
It’s a hard pill to swallow
I usually use the opportunity when someone brings up a celebrity case (Like DSK) to tell them about False Rape Accusations or when that chick cut off her husband’s dick to talk about Domestic Violence. I try to stay away from using exact statistics, and would say something like “I read the other day online that most rape claims are made up” and then if they ask why would someone lie like that I’d tell them “sometimes a woman regrets having sex the next day or is found out by her boyfriend/ex and instead of admitting that she cheated would say that he raped her” I don’t usually give all the information so that I don’t come off like I’m bitter or like I have an agenda.
@ Muk, I agree with much of what you are saying, but it should not require some form of highly-skilled, fine-tunned rhetoric, executed strategically, at the precisely correct moment, making use of effective “delivery” with the zeal of a professional comedian, while taking every precaution to work the message into the conversation without sounding “bitter”, in order to get other men to agree that men should not have to pay for children that they were led to believe were theirs by a lying woman who committed paternity fraud against that man. But, unfortunately, feminist indoctrination has run so deep that such measured, disciplined use of rhetoric actually IS often required. These men are in stark denial.
I do understand the benefit in what you are saying, though.
See, I am at a college campus, not an office or workplace. The feminist rallies here such as “Walk a Mile in Her Heels”, “Take Back the Night”, “The Clothesline Project”, etc., etc. are becoming increasingly hateful. There is no oppostion to what they say at all whatsoever. You cannot go one day on this campus without seeing or hearing that one in four women are raped during their four years of college. This statistic is announced on the radio as I drive to campus. I see it on the wall at the health center. It is placed on the electronic bulletin board at the gym. It is announced at half-time during the football games over the score board. I have even seen it printed on the napkin dispensers on cafeteria tables. This lie, along with dozens more such as “every 15 seconds a woman is attacked by her husband or boyfriend”, are becoming so pervasive here that they have literally become popular conversation topics among the student body here.
I really don’t know how to oppose these lies without sounding llike I am bitter or have an agenda. Even saying that women sometimes lie about rape is enough to start a shit storm. Now, I usually don’t say anything about it. People here are a lost cause. I have to pick my battles wisely. I just leave cards with AVfM in the men’s restrooms. Unfortunately, I have already alienated nearly everyone by simply suggesting this site to my friends. There is no way out of this, it seems. There are no tactful, well-delivered ways to promote the ideas of the MRM that will work here, I’m afraid. I have tried.
I hear the term “misogynistic” almost every week here. In all of the cases that I have provided input contrary to feminist dogma when it comes up in idle conversation (and it does pretty often here), I have always been the one who said something that was the mildest of all, given the topic on the table at the time. And, still, I am the guy with “the bad attitude”.
This is great news. To my knowledge, the other two states where men can overturn the presumption of paternity are – Georgia and Ohio. One of the pioneers of the movement to prevent paternity fraud is Mr Carnell Smith of Atlanta. Having been a victim of paternity fraud, he waged a relentless battle not only to extricate himself from this most unreasonable state demand to support child not fathered by him, but also was instrumental in changing the law in Georgia. He even filed a petetion in Supreme court to free non-biological fathers from child support obligations.
Paternity fraud is a crime against humanity. It must be condemned in the harshest terms possible. Texas has taken a step in the right direction. Hope other states follow the Texan example.
Thank you very much for that information. This is raw legal misandry in its purest form. What enraging obsenity. I could literally chew up a loan mower chain right now when I consider that in 48 states a man, who is not the father of the child, has no right to overturn paternity in the event that the holy feminine says that he is. I will NEVER forget this story when Paul first covered it. This makeup rat on the Houston news said, “Under a new Texas law, MEN may not be required to pay child support for a child that they discover is not theirs; now, for years that has NOT been the case…” She made her gutwrenching discontentment with this new law crystal clear with her vocal inflection on the word “men”. She was a total sneering bitch. You could really tell that she was furious about the idea that women may no longer have the “empowerment” to pin paternity on random men at will, wherby converting him into her woman support slave, enforcable with the barrel of a service pistol.
Well seems to me that everyone then agrees that CS is “extorting monies” but legally. I mean WTF?! That’s messed up!