Paternity

Connecticut Paternity Cases

If you’ve been presented with the news that you’ve fathered a child, you’ve got several decisions to make.

The first one, of course, is determining if it’s true. Paternity can now be established quickly and with great certainty by a DNA test. Contact family law attorney Bruce A. Chamberlain to begin the process of paternity testing and to understand how a positive response may affect your life from here on.

Our law office has handled many paternity cases with tact and care. If the child is yours, you will need to maintain a positive relationship with the mother and you don’t want legal action to make that relationship more difficult.

If you are the father, you will need to talk to an attorney about child custody and visitation and child support . It is important to get a these decisions ironed out right away, before you lose your rights because you didn’t exercise them. We help to secure unmarried fathers’ paternity rights in court.

Difficult Cases

Connecticut assumes that children born during a marriage are the product of the husband and wife. This is not always the case. If you believe that a child born during your marriage was not fathered by you, you can ask for a DNA test. This is an emotionally complex course of action and it will upset people, but you will know for certain who is the father of the child.

Many men who have raised a child from birth (whether married to the mother or not) feel they are the true father of that child, whether the child is biologically theirs or not. These men may not want a DNA test. If you want to claim paternity of a child born out of wedlock, you can sign a form acknowledging paternity and appear in family law to affirm paternity.

Contact the fathers’ rights law office of Bruce A. Chamberlain to talk to an experienced and understanding attorney who has helped many men through the process of determining paternity or acknowledging paternity. We protect unmarried fathers’ paternity rights in court.

At the New London, Connecticut law office of divorce attorney Bruce A. Chamberlain we help people find fair and equitable solutions in custody, support and property division. We serve communities in New London County, Connecticut, including Groton, Waterford, Norwich, Stonington, Mystic, East Lyme, Colchester, Ledyard, and Montville.