Kansas.. Oh the spin they put on this load of horse dung..

"Chris" wrote in message
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Any man that's good enough to pay child support is good enough to have
custody of such child.
"Dusty" wrote in message
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You won't believe the level of spin they put on this piece.. Army
Sergeant gets screwed by X over C$ for child he didn't sire, tries to
get the law changed and the legislature says, "..they were worried
that changing the law could have unintended consequences." Oh,
ceasing to screw a man over is going to have "unintended
consequences"??? Are they for real?!?

Then there's this beauty.. "We have to be very careful about fixing
the entire law because of one case," - State Sen. Tim Owens
Oh yeah, re-elect his ass right away.
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http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/994731.html

Kansas bill aims to fix 'presumed father' quandary
By DAVID KLEPPER
The Star's Topeka correspondent

TOPEKA - Wife has an affair, gets pregnant and gives birth to a boy.
Husband and wife divorce. Tests show the husband isn't the father,
but a court orders him to pay child support anyway.

It is a story of what happens when the birds and the bees get
entangled with the letter of the law, and on Wednesday, it had Kansas
lawmakers scratching their heads.

Master Sgt. Christopher Sprowson is a 19-year Army veteran now on his
third tour in Iraq. His wife, Karey, and three children live near
Fort Riley, where she stays home to raise the children.

In 1995, Sprowson's first wife had an affair and got pregnant. The
couple divorced when the child was still a baby, and Sprowson has
never had a relationship with the boy. Genetic tests prove the boy,
now 13, is not his.

But a judge decided it didn't matter. According to Kansas law, a
husband is the "presumed father" of his wife's children - even if the
children were fathered by another man.

Then what's the purpose of DNA tests?

To broadcast the appearance of honor where there is none.


Because the boy's mother could not tell the court who the father was,
the judge ruled Sprowson had to pay.

The boy's mother never sought child support and offered to forgo the
money, Karey Sprowson said. But the state required the payments
because the mother once received welfare. The state automatically
seeks child support for any parent receiving state assistance.

On Wednesday, Karey Sprowson urged legislators to change the law so
that nonbiological fathers can use genetic tests to avoid paying
child support. She said her family can't afford the more than $10,000
the court wants.

She said the state plans to garnishee her husband's Army paycheck and
keep the family's tax refund.

"It's not fair that my three children should have to suffer because
of this," she said, adding that such a remedy already was the law in
such states as Ohio, Colorado and Florida.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said they wanted to help,
but they also said they were worried that changing the law could have
unintended consequences.

The state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and the
Kansas Bar Association said many children could lose child-support
payments if the law is changed. One concern is that a stepfather
could get out of paying support after a divorce - no matter how long
he had lived with his children.

"HIS" children?

Translaton: he has deeper pockets than the real dad.



Ronald Nelson, a Johnson County lawyer who specializes in family law,
told legislators that the law recognizes that fatherhood is more than
biology.

Just what does he mean by "fatherhood"?

A.T.M.


Nelson said legislation designed to help the Sprowsons would be "a
broad brushstroke that will affect hundreds, thousands of other
children."

State Sen. Tim Owens, an Overland Park Republican, said the committee
will try to pass the bill without creating new problems.

"We have to be very careful about fixing the entire law because of
one case," Owens said.

As you should be ALL the time. What's the point?

If fixed, it removes an option for women to name the wrong dad to insure
a better paycheck.
Phil #3