re: My fiancee cheated on me.

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I did a brief google search on the law and I think it's too late for him. He signed an Affidavit acknowledging his own paternity when the child was born. Under La. law that's the only way for you to sign the birth certificate. Now that the child is a few years old it's too late for him to contest paternity. He is the legal obligor that the La. Dept of Child Support Enforcement will go after for child support, no matter whether Mom lives with him or not.

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That sounds roughly right. But you need to see a lawyer who is actually current on Louisiana law, assuming you are in Louisiana.

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did a brief google search on the law and I think it's too late for him. He signed an Affidavit acknowledging his own paternity when the child was born. Under La. law that's the only way for you to sign the birth certificate. Now that the child is a few years old it's too late for him to contest paternity. He is the legal obligor that the La. Dept of Child Support Enforcement will go after for child support, no matter whether Mom lives with him or not.

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I’d think he’s in a situation where this is a double edged sword against him. He may have by signing put himself in a position wherein he could be legally financially obligated to support the child, should the mother/child demand it; while also putting himself into a position whereby he has very little power to be in the child’s life - he’s admitted to signing as the father while knowing he wasn’t (which could probably be easily proved with a calendar), and should anyone else want to enforce their rights to paternity (either the actual father, or the mother wanting to show the OP isn’t the father and has no rights, for whatever reason that may be) then the OP hasn’t done enough, like legal adoption or marriage, to exert his desire to remain the father.