re: Wife having a child while married that isn't yours

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One of my coworkers is swearing up and down that if your wife gets pregnant while the two of you are married and has the baby while the two of you are married, that you are still legally considered the father and are still responsible for that child (in Louisiana) even if you are not the biological father.

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There is definitely precedent to this.

Things get murky the second you sign a birth certificate. It gets regarded as a legal document of you accepting parentage regardless of biological descent.

And things get locked if you provided for the child for years before finding out it isn't yours.

The icing on the cake is when the judge rules that you have to pay child support but you have no right to claim visitation because after all, they aren't your child.


Its not a given, but yes, the system can be that slanted against you.