Can I get child support without jeopardizing my custody?
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My son is 6 and his father has never been around. I've never asked him for child support but times are hard and I need help. However, I don't want for him to have custody of my son because he is not in a stable place (he's in a gang). Furthermore, my son doesn't even know him. I want to know what are my options? I've never taking my son from him; this man knows where I have been living for the past 13 years.
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Legally, there's no reason why you can't file for child support now. Having let him "slide" for six years isn't a problem here; in fact, in most states, if you had signed an agreement with him to give up child support for something totally inadequate (in one case that I've read, it was $500), the courts won't enforce that because the child support really belongs to the child, and you aren't seen as having the right to just give that up.
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