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Colorado man forced to pay $730-a-month in child support to ex-wife despite DNA test proving he is NOT the father of her child 

  • Chris Atkins spent 11 years raising a daughter that was not his
  • He is still required by law to pay child support because his name is on the girl's birth certificate 
  • Atkins claims that despite paying, he is not allowed visitation rights
  • He has not seen his daughter, now 15, for four years
  • Mother Lori Lonnquist wants Atkins to relinquish his parental rights

By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 08:35 EST, 29 July 2016 | UPDATED: 12:24 EST, 29 July 2016

 

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A Colorado man who spent 11 years believing he had fathered a daughter with his ex-wife is now fighting to stop paying child support after discovering the girl isn't actually his.

Chris Atkins, 48, is legally obliged to pay $730 each month to his ex wife, Lori Lonnquist, despite a DNA test recently proving he is not the child's father.

Atkins says he had only been dating Lonnquist a 'short time' when she told him she was pregnant. 

The two married in 2000 before the child was born, but split up two and a half years later, with Atkins paying child support ever since.

However during a fight, Lonnquist blurted out that the girl did not belong to Atkins, setting in motion a nasty parental rights battle, Fox 31 reported.

'I just want everybody to know this is happening': Denver man Christ Atkins has been legally forced to pay child support despite DNA testing showing the child is not his
 
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'I just want everybody to know this is happening': Denver man Christ Atkins has been legally forced to pay child support despite DNA testing showing the child is not his

'I don't feel bad': Lori Lonnquist told Atkins for 11 years that the child was his. She recently admitted the girl was fathered by someone else 
 
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'I don't feel bad': Lori Lonnquist told Atkins for 11 years that the child was his. She recently admitted the girl was fathered by someone else 

Atkins daughter is now 15, however he says he has not been allowed to see her for four years.

He says that while the courts can force him to pay child support, he is still not allowed visitation.

'It doesn't make any sense to me,' Atkins told Fox 31.

'I just want my daughter, but I can't even see her, but yet I'm still paying child support. And the biological father has been found and he gets to spend time with her. I don't get nothing.'

Lonnquist insisted Atkins abandoned any relationship with her daughter when he learned she wasn't biologically his. Atkins denied that and said Lonnquist refused to facilitate visits. 

Furthermore she is trying to get him to relinquish his parental rights, so that her daughter can take the surname of Lonnquist's current partner, who she will soon marry.

 
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Chris Atkins spent 11 years raising a daughter he believed to be his but wasn't. The two are seen together here
 
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Chris Atkins spent 11 years raising a daughter he believed to be his but wasn't. The two are seen together here

Atkins said that he married Lonnquist (pictured together at their 2000 wedding) after discovering she was pregnant, despite the two only dating for a short time 
 
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Atkins said that he married Lonnquist (pictured together at their 2000 wedding) after discovering she was pregnant, despite the two only dating for a short time 

Lonnquist said she would agree to stop collecting child support from Atkins if he would agree to terminate his parental rights.

When asked if she was being greedy by Fox, Lonnquist said: 'Maybe, but I don't feel bad about it, I really don't.'

Legal experts say the process to give up parental rights is cumbersome, because it requires someone to step in and have their name recorded on the birth certificate.

The obvious choice would be the girl's biological father, however he is not willing. 

Atkins says he will continue to fight, but does not know what the outcome will be. 

'You know, I don't want pity, I just want everybody to know this is happening,' he said.

'It's not right, it is not right.'

As it stands, Atkins is required to continue to pay child support for another four years, until the girl is 19. 



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Well that's a pickle.

He needs to find another lawyer and judge.



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When you put your name on a birth certificate, you are taking responsibility for that child, even if it isn't yours. The time to have a DNA test was at birth. He IS the child's father. Period. He should have visitation without a doubt. That's the real issue.

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This plays out all over the country. If married, judges want someone other than the taxpayer to support the child, so the guys are stuck. Pretty sure there is a way out of it but the legal fees will be huge.

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Mellow Momma wrote:

When you put your name on a birth certificate, you are taking responsibility for that child, even if it isn't yours. The time to have a DNA test was at birth. He IS the child's father. Period. He should have visitation without a doubt. That's the real issue.

Oh baloney.  She knew that there was a chance it wasn't his child.  That's crap.  He is getting royally screwed.  It's not is his child.  Sounds like that he wouldn't mind if he could be involved in her life but hasn't seen her for 4 years!  So, what kind of mother is she?



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As for who should pay, the Bio father should pay that's who.

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I can't understand why, if he is listed as the father, and has been paying child support,
he is not allowed to see his daughter. Is there more to the story? A convicted felon?
Does the girl know that some other man is her bio father?
Does Baby Mama want her current sleep-in to suddenly become the father?



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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:

When you put your name on a birth certificate, you are taking responsibility for that child, even if it isn't yours. The time to have a DNA test was at birth. He IS the child's father. Period. He should have visitation without a doubt. That's the real issue.

Oh baloney.  She knew that there was a chance it wasn't his child.  That's crap.  He is getting royally screwed.  It's not is his child.  Sounds like that he wouldn't mind if he could be involved in her life but hasn't seen her for 4 years!  So, what kind of mother is she?

 Actually it isn't baloney - it's the law. When a man puts his name on the birth certificate he is taking responsibility for the child. In some states, when a married couple has a child the husband is automatically listed as the father - without his consent - regardless if he is the genetic father. He has no choice and IS responsible if the couple is married at the time of birth. DNA does not always matter in these cases.

Regardless, I agree that the mother is a piece of garbage. He deserves to see his daughter.  



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He put his name there because she lied and said it was HIS kid.

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Well if they are calling him the father to the point that he pays child support, then he should get the visitation that goes with that. So they either need to start visitation or stop the child support. Also, the other man should be held accountable. Why does he get the choice to not to be on the birth certificate but this guy doesn't?

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Exactly. He spread his biological DNA and yet has no responsibility for the child he created? As for the other father, he isn't the bio dad. It was a lie. And, he shouldn't have to pay.





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So how much of a relationship did he have with this child before he found out she wasn't his?


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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Exactly. He spread his biological DNA and yet has no responsibility for the child he created? As for the other father, he isn't the bio dad. It was a lie. And, he shouldn't have to pay.



 And this is the issue with woman and their "baby daddies".  They don't list the bio dad because then bio dad will have to pay child support.  In Mass it is law they have to state who the bio dad is, a DNA test will be done.  But all they have to do is declare they don't know and they get the monthly gov't check in the mail.



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I think she probably lied to him from the jump.

Or conception.

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That's actually normal - I remember a case like this from law school. If a man accepts a child as his own and raises it, it is his responsibility b/c that's in the best interest of the child.

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I'm very surprised he doesn't have visitation, though. That's is the odd part.

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Right. He can't raise her for years then deny he's a parent. But curious, too, about the lack of visitation.

How devastating it must have been for him to find out he wasn't the biological father.

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If my father tried getting out of paying my child support after 11 years claiming he's not really my dad ....
I don't think I'd want to see him anymore. Jet saying


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Lawyerlady wrote:

That's actually normal - I remember a case like this from law school. If a man accepts a child as his own and raises it, it is his responsibility b/c that's in the best interest of the child.

 Thank you. 

 

In a lot of states the DNA is irrelevant. If the couple was married at the birth, the husband is on the hook.  



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