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[apocalypsos]

Jerry Orbach's dead?! *whimper*

In other news, can I stay home and write? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease? What do you mean, 'No'? Hmph. Killjoys.

EDIT: You want to divorce your abusive husband? Not a problem. Oh, wait, you're pregnant. Sorry, no divorce. After all, your kid needs an abusive a father. Like whispersinink said, aren't you thrilled we're getting rid of those activist judges? *end sarcasm*

Comments

[paranoidgrl.livejournal.com]

Legally, a child born during a marriage is presumed to be the child of the husband. You have to prove otherwise for the husband *not* to be responsible for the child. In the state that I'm in, you can't get divorced while pregnant because the Judge routinely makes a finding of paternity in divorces, and he has to give the parties an opportunity to do DNA testing. Now, if all the parties agree Husband isn't the father, and boyfriend is willing to admit paternity (and accept financial responsibility for child) it seems the problems the Court is worried about disappear. Maybe because husband isn't responding, that's part of the problem.

[dolimir-k.livejournal.com]

Good points.

I think the thing everyone is forgetting here is that the court isn't going to force them to live with each other. They're simply going to make her wait until the child is born.

[fyrdrakken]

There's that, and there's also the fact that the husband is the father of the two kids the woman already has so she's kind of going to remain tied to him anyway so far as they're concerned with child support or visitation rights or whatever (assuming he gets any once he's out of prison, between his record and her restraining order). Being legally bound to an ex -- even when you no longer live together, even when you've moved on to a new SO -- causes some major long-term problems, though, especially where legal rights regarding what you can do with the kids and where credit records are concerned. My father had a divorce that stretched on for a couple of years (because my stepmother kept firing her lawyers when they told her she couldn't demand more in the settlement than my father's entire net worth, and kept refusing to sign even though she'd been the one to file for the divorce) and his hands were tied when it came to any major expenditures.