Fauver v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “[t]o permit a parent to abrogate that obligation [for support] through an agreement with the other parent ... of a possible adoption at some future time creates the possibility of a break in the chain of responsibility... . [I]f the non-custodial parent had no continuing obligation to support the minor child simply because he had executed an adoption consent form, then the responsibility to support the child should the custodial parent becomes incapacitated or unable to support the child, as she did in Fauver , would fall on the state and, therefore, the result would be a violation of public policy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Witt v. Witt

2. “is to require a child's father to pay expenses of pregnancy and child support, not to avoid such.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 59 - Kielkowski v. Kielkowski

3. “[TJhe primary purpose of the Uniform Paternity Act,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 59 - Kielkowski v. Kielkowski