Do you legally have to notify partner of child?

AFAIK if she registers it as "father unknown" he will have very little right.

Not sure how he'd get a DNA test easily either :(
 
If she doesn't tell him he will save huge sums of cash - chances are that if he has a fat wage packet she will change her story so she can pay her mortgage - run a car - have holidays etc... Believe me - I'm one of the poor *******s that got stung... oh and she can refuse to let him see the kid reguardless of weather he pays or not, and if not, they will just slap an attachment of earnings on him. Its a wonderful system we have in the UK about 70% of housing on some estate have single mothers living in them and all because the lady loves C.S.A....

This can be avoided relatively easily by not having unprotected sex...
 
This can be avoided relatively easily by not having unprotected sex...

That said, when in the situation such as the OP and you are married, you don't expect your partner to behave towards you in this way.
 
The law is mucked up with regards to fathers, our rights are thin and you have to fight for them.
Fighting to see a child you have never met would be fruitless in the case of a child that is older, the mother would have had plenty of time to poison the kids against the dad. My sisters other half has two girls by his ex and both of them are spitefull towards him.
My ex just moved my son 200 miles away with 5 days notice at the age of 14, apparently although she wanted it (now living the dream) it was his final say, although he wasn't allowed to talk to me about it. Moving him to a new school at 14, I ask you. She should have had a legal responsibility to tell me.
He could have stayed with me and carried going to the same school but she doesn't want to loose the money, maintenance and tax credits, without those she couldn't afford to live.
Praying for the day that he grows a pair and tells her NO but she messes with his head too much :(
 
That said, when in the situation such as the OP and you are married, you don't expect your partner to behave towards you in this way.

As we only really have one side of the story we don't know why she is acting this way. For all we know he could have been abusive or there could be other reasons as to why the mother wants nothing to do with the father.

You are right that in a marriage situation then things are different but that doesn't really absolve you from not having to worry about contraception.
 
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