"URGENT" Stop Paternity Fraud in California

This petition was published by Marco on Sep 11, 2004

Davis vetoed the California Paternity Justice Act (AB 2240), which would have helped thousands of California men who were wrongly assigned paternity in default judgments, and who have been compelled by the state to pay years of child support for children whom DNA tests have shown are not theirs. In Los Angeles County in 2000, for example, 79 percent of paternity judgments were decreed by default. Most of these men had no idea they were "fathers" until their wages were garnished.

We need laws like *AB 252 (Jackson)which would permit the Department of Child Support Services to review the current practices of process service regarding paternity and to develop methods to increase personal delivery. Would also require a court to inform an alleged father of a child of his right to have genetic testing performed to determine if he is the biological father and of his right to move to set aside or vacate a judgement of paternity, as specified.

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