Paternity lawsuit can be brought against you! It happened to me...
(The girl) told (her attorney) to dismiss the suit and cancel the claim before the DAS. However the attorney is not willing to put it off until she gets paid. Her balance is $2 million. She told me that if you pay this off, she will take care of dismissing all, she even gave me an account number. 3. She informed me that (I) the other guy is claiming that he is the father of the child and that the have a very cunfussing relationship with (the girl).
Some of you guys may recall the warning I posted on Buying Property in Colombia, that you could be named in a paternity suit. Well, it happened to me a year ago.
I have omitted the name of the girl, though she is from Medellin. I met her thru Colombiansweethearts.com. I would caution anyone who wants to have a relationship with a Colombiana, that this can happen to you too!
Just now the lawsuit is winding down. Above is an excerpt from an email from Juan German-Osario, the attorney recommended to me by Aussie Greg of the Medellin Mansion. I am not paying anything, unless the girl gets a test with the Colombian guy and it is negative. Then I will submit to testing with the child. By the way, the child looks like a Colombian was the father, not a gringo.
Turns out that another guy is claiming that he is the father and the girls attorney is willing to drop everything. IF I pay her attorney's fees! See the price you pay for coming to Colombia!
Child support - please help me out.
Hello!
I'm reading this reports about lawsuits over beeing father to a colombian child.
And it makes me concerned and confused.
Can someone with knowledge on the matter fill in the blanks, please.
I guess there's alot more guys than me that plans on bringing a paisa back home for setting a family.
I would love to straighten out the rules/obligations before taking this step.
In a case of separation from the mother (NOT beeing married, just having a child together):
1, If you father a child, and you still live in Colombia - how much to pay from your income, according to colombian laws?
2, If you father a child, and you live in USA/EU - how much can she claim you to pay from your income, according to USA/EU laws?
Best regards and Thanks in advance, Ken Apples.
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Paternity issue came from a marriage, not failure to wrap.
[QUOTE=Ken_Apples]Hello!
I'm reading this reports about lawsuits over beeing father to a colombian child.
And it makes me concerned and confused.
Can someone with knowledge on the matter fill in the blanks, please.
I guess there's alot more guys than me that plans on bringing a paisa back home for setting a family.
I would love to straighten out the rules/obligations before taking this step.
In a case of separation from the mother (NOT beeing married, just having a child together):
1, If you father a child, and you still live in Colombia - how much to pay from your income, according to colombian laws?
2, If you father a child, and you live in USA/EU - how much can she claim you to pay from your income, according to USA/EU laws?
Best regards and Thanks in advance, Ken Apples.[/QUOTE]Thanks for your questions, Ken, it lets me explain.
I had married this Medellin girl and wanted to start a family with her. I am not 15, but 51 and this was my last attempt to have a family. I had planned on bringing her to the US also. Unfaithful, she had a Colombian boyfriend who had unprotected sex with her several times during one month while we were waiting for her spousal visa. Nine months later, her baby looks like a Colombian.
Do not trust these girls you meet from an agency, whether in Cali or Medellin. They are opportunists!
I could tell there was something wrong going on, with my intuition, she was behaving 180 degrees different, so I had promptly gotten an annulment in the US. After one year of a lawsuit and being barred from entry to Colombia under threat of arrest for non-support, last week her lawyer finally verified the reality to my lawyer. A Colombian guy was claiming he is the father!
Now the girl is voluntarily dropping the lawsuit, getting a paternity test with the Colombian guy and the results should be known in 3 weeks. If he is not the father, then I possibly may be, or there could be Colombian guy #2? I also had unprotected sex once or twice during the same time with my "then wife", but I was hoping to start a family with her.
To answer your questions, Ken, Colombia and the US do not cooperate in the area of child support enforcement like several other English speaking countries. There is very little the Colombian Courts can do to get a US guy to pay child support. The girl would have to have you served personally (it takes a year or two for papers to come thru the Colombian embassy in Miami) with a lawsuit in the US or Colombia, get a Colombian Judgment, and have a US attorney to do alot of expensive legal work to domesticate the foreign judgment, that she probably could not afford.
In my case, her lawyer had not been paid anything by the girl and that is partly why her lawyer told my lawyer everything, in violation of the attorney-client privilege. The girl had lied to me for over a year about not having another Colombian boyfriend.
She thought, and still thinks, that she can push the kid off on me and I would not get a blood test. I have learned some of this while sweating about my own future.
I would love to hear of some relationship to a Colombiana that worked out to a gringo, long term, but unfortunately I do not know of any. Sorry, I sound negative about this ordeal.
Good luck!
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[QUOTE=Ford]Good find Miami Luver!
I've been to Colombia 5x. Great country, great people, great climate and beautiful women - but let's not forget that this country still has a prevalent "drug culture" and a "gang culture" that is deeply ingrained in the society.
FARC is still a very real and very powerful force in the countries rural areas.[/QUOTE]
People SHOULD NOT, think its like D.R. or even worse C.R. or Panama!