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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Parallel situations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.034211.10923@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Dec29.210320.9276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan1.015955.117@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan2.035717.21488@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:42:11 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1993Jan2.035717.21488@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan1.015955.117@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec29.210320.9276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>>> Kevin Darcy
- >>>> Larry Margolis
- >>>
- >>>>>Similarly, there is no formal "billing" of pregnancy/child-support costs
- >>>>>until a child is born, and the paternity award is made, but that doesn't mean
- >>>>>the charges aren't INCURRED before the child is born.
- >>>>
- >>>>The charges are incurred by the woman whether or not a child results; the
- >>>>man is only obligated to pay a portion of those charges if a child results
- >>>>and a paternity award is made. If no child results, then there is no
- >>>>paternity award, and therefore no financial obligation for the man even
- >>>>though charges were incurred by the woman.
- >>>>
- >>>Minor quibble, just to keep the facts straight...
- >>>Kevin, the OB types I know all have charges which are paid by the
- >>>pregnant woman as pre-natal care is administered. Even those with
- >>>insurance have deductables, co-payments etc. So there most certainly
- >>>*is* formal billing of pregnancy costs before any child is born.
- >>
- >>The issue at hand is whether the man incurs paternity child support liability
- >>at the point he has sexual intercourse, or later, after the child is born, and
- >>the paternity award is made.
- >>
- >>What you contributed, Mark, while perhaps true, is irrelevant to the issue at
- >>hand.
- >>
- >Then you were posting irrelevancies when you posted the claim that "there
- >is no formal "billing" of pregnancy/child support costs until a child
- >is born"
-
- Gack! What a moron! Look back through the articles of this thread, Mark.
- We were talking about a billing of the MAN. Sheesh.
-
- - Kevin
-