Hawaii Paternity Attorney: Parentage, Support, Visitation, Fathers' Rights, Adoption
Like other laws involving children, paternity laws exist to promote best interests of the children above everything else. Father's legal rights are also profoundly affected by the outcome of paternity tests. You need to talk to a lawyer about paternity if any of the following are true in your case:
- You have been named by a mother or mother-to-be as father of a child and wish to confirm or refute that claim
- As the birth father, you want to assert your father's rights including right to visitation or joint child custody
- As the birth mother, you want to claim child support from the father of your baby or child
- You are a divorced or separated father; the mother was married to you at the time of conception, but you have reason to believe that the child was conceived by another man, and you want to be relieved of responsibility to pay child support
- You are an unmarried couple, living as if you were married, and you rightly realize that for everyone's protection, you need a legal determination of the parentage of your child (especially since, without marriage or DNA evidence, the father will have no legal rights with regard to the child even though you all live together)
- Before termination of parental rights of a father in a planned adoption, the paternity of that father first needs to be confirmed
Charles H. Brower and Associates, L.C., in Honolulu, Hawaii, welcomes the opportunity to evaluate your paternity matter. Whether you are the birth mother, birth father or intended adoptive parents, contact the law firm to schedule a consultation. Call us. We care.
Paternity actions often occur in the context of highly emotional circumstances — such as when an assumed father has been parenting a child for years and then discovers reason to believe he is not, in fact, the father.
An experienced family law attorney is a valuable resource through these circumstances. The answer of whether a man is or is not the father is readily available through DNA testing, a purely biological procedure. But determination of and assertion of legal rights of the father, the mother and/or the child is best handled by a lawyer experienced in family law. Call or e-mail Charles H. Brower and Associates, L.C., to discuss your rights and responsibilities when paternity is in question in Hawaii.
