{"id":8013,"date":"2011-06-30T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2011-06-30T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:19:01","slug":"houston-man-forced-to-pay-child-support-even-after-dna-test-shows-its-not-his-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8013","title":{"rendered":"Houston Man Forced To Pay Child Support Even After DNA Test Shows It&#8217;s Not His Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new state law says men no longer have to make child support payments if they discover the child is not theirs, but a Houston man says he still has to pay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ray Thomas<\/strong> is saying he is frustrated because he owes more than $50,000, even though he is not the child&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;ve been taking money out of my income tax &#8212; taking my money and I haven&#8217;t been able to pay my bills,\u201d <strong>Thomas<\/strong> said. <strong>Thomas<\/strong> claims he&#8217;s a victim of mistaken paternity.<\/p>\n<p>He said, in 1986 a woman he was dating had a baby and told <strong>Thomas<\/strong> it was his, which <strong>Thomas<\/strong> believed until the child started growing red hair. <strong>Thomas<\/strong> said he went to court numerous times trying to clear things up, but said the judge wouldn&#8217;t hear it.<\/p>\n<p>The new legislation will not help <strong>Thomas <\/strong>because his case is old and the courts are looking not backward, but forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new state law says men no longer have to make child support payments if they discover the child is not theirs, but a Houston man says he still has to pay. Ray Thomas is saying he is frustrated because he owes more than $50,000, even though he is not the child&#8217;s father. \u201cThey&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}