# child support

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 14, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714 "2004-12-14T02:33:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hauss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@hauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hauss)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714/1 "2004-12-14T02:33:43Z")

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Is there any possible way for a male who got a girl pregnant who is going to keep the baby to full relieve himself of child support by signing his rights away from the child.  
If you can think of a scenario in which this is possible, then I would love to hear it.

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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714/2 "2004-12-14T02:43:37Z")

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Ummmm… I think you already asked this, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291701) . The answer is going to be pretty much the same no matter how many times you ask.

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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714/3 "2004-12-14T02:50:47Z")

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You can’t ‘sign away your rights’ except through adoption to another father. At least, that was the law in Canada when I inquired re: my eldest son’s father.

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**Author:** ![hauss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@hauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hauss)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714/4 "2004-12-14T02:52:26Z")

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If this is not possible then what does,“signing your rights away mean”.  
I seem to be hearing all the time

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**Author:** ![hauss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@hauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hauss)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714/5 "2004-12-14T02:54:32Z")

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what happens if the father does not pay child support what can the court do about it

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support/279714/6 "2004-12-14T02:57:47Z")

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> [@MLS](#):
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> Ummmm… I think you already asked this, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291701) . The answer is going to be pretty much the same no matter how many times you ask.

**hauss** , don’t open multiple threads on the same subject. I’m closing this one, since you started the other one first.

Lynn  
For the Straight Dope