This is just a question for curiosity sake, so I don't need any expert legal advice. Just wondering if anyone knows the child support laws in the DR.
I did some research on this site and on the internet in general, and I can not seem to find any definitive answers.
It seems that a judge in a DR court can impose child support on a gringo/a as long as the child lives in the DR and has a Dominican mother or father. What I don?t understand is that there are 100's of 1000's of single Dominican mothers. I have heard it is common for Dominican males to get a woman pregnant and leave without payment or responsibility. Many women have children from multiple fathers, and many many men have children with multiple women. I have never heard or seen of any of these men paying any kind of child support.
My question, is child support imposed by a DR court only for gringos/as, or is it the same for all persons in the DR? Is there a responsibility for Dominican fathers to pay child support? If there is not, how can they justify forcing a gringo/a to pay child support?
NOTE** - before anyone gets their underwear in a bunch, I know there are millions of responsible Dominican parents who take full responsibility for their children and who do not have children from multiple partners. I am not painting all Dominicans with a broad brush - just that it is more common than you would see in Canada.
I did some research on this site and on the internet in general, and I can not seem to find any definitive answers.
It seems that a judge in a DR court can impose child support on a gringo/a as long as the child lives in the DR and has a Dominican mother or father. What I don?t understand is that there are 100's of 1000's of single Dominican mothers. I have heard it is common for Dominican males to get a woman pregnant and leave without payment or responsibility. Many women have children from multiple fathers, and many many men have children with multiple women. I have never heard or seen of any of these men paying any kind of child support.
My question, is child support imposed by a DR court only for gringos/as, or is it the same for all persons in the DR? Is there a responsibility for Dominican fathers to pay child support? If there is not, how can they justify forcing a gringo/a to pay child support?
NOTE** - before anyone gets their underwear in a bunch, I know there are millions of responsible Dominican parents who take full responsibility for their children and who do not have children from multiple partners. I am not painting all Dominicans with a broad brush - just that it is more common than you would see in Canada.