Evans Family Paternity Fraud Fund
Donation protected
Paternity Fraud: Occurs when a woman identifies the wrong man as the father of her child; usually for financial gain of child support and/or maintenance aka "Father Shopping".
WA State laws under RCW 26.26 "The Uniform Parentage Act" allow women to maintain collection of child support from men who have proven through DNA evidence that they are NOT the father of a child.
The Andrew Evans family discovered in 2009 via two separate DNA tests that Andrew had a 0% chance of Paternity for a child his ex-wife had given birth to ten years prior.
Due to the current WA State laws, there was and remains no legal recourse for Andrew, except to continue paying $850 per month for this non genetic child, regardless of the financial hardship it continues to create for his biological children living at home.
Our family has fought to reform RCW 26.26 for the past three years in the WA Legislature having run the following bills:
2014- SB 5997
2015- SB 5006 and HB 1524
2016- SB 6452 and HB 2612 "The Brandon Jones Act"
however Legislators have failed to pass this paramount reform.
Why are we asking for help now?
Andrew's non genetic child is turning 18 years old in April. We had hoped to finally be free of paying child support in June 2017 when the child was supposed to graduate from high school as the current support order states payment occurs until " the child turns 18, or as long as the child is attending high school; whichever occurs LAST".
Unfortunately, the child's mother has continued her foul and manipulative actions in pulling the child out of public school in the middle of her Sophomore year (January 2015) by filing the "Intent to Home School" form. The mother has since failed to educate the child for the past year and a half, but has now re-enrolled the child into public school in what was supposed to be the child's Senior year of high school. The child only has 3.5 of the required 24 credits to graduate. At the current deficit of credits acquired, it is not possible for the child to graduate from high school until the age of 21 years old.
Under WA law, it is available to students with educational deficits such as these to be allowed to attend school until age 21.
What this means is that Andrew will be legally responsible to continue paying child support for a non-genetic child until the age of 21, unless our family goes back to court to petition to modify the support order and request that support be terminated when the child turns 18 in April.
This request for help does not come lightly. Our family has prided itself on always dealing with our financial hurdles and being fiscally responsible. Unfortunately, we MUST raise $5000 to pay for attorney fees for this final court case, and we need to raise this money by January 1st, 2017.
We are determined to continue pushing for Legislative reform and are pursuing a new bill in the 2017 legislature titled "The Evans Family Relief Act".
Our family has spent countless hours of our time, talent and treasure to support the passage of Paternity reform, without ever asking for financial help. We have simply wanted to Stop Paternity Fraud for ALL families in WA, but we can't do this alone, and are humbly asking for financial help now.
Thank you all for showing your support and helping us in this final push for our freedom!
Please feel free to visit my blog for more information on our family's story and fight for legislative reform:
www.survivingpaternityfraud2ndwife.blogspot.com
WA State laws under RCW 26.26 "The Uniform Parentage Act" allow women to maintain collection of child support from men who have proven through DNA evidence that they are NOT the father of a child.
The Andrew Evans family discovered in 2009 via two separate DNA tests that Andrew had a 0% chance of Paternity for a child his ex-wife had given birth to ten years prior.
Due to the current WA State laws, there was and remains no legal recourse for Andrew, except to continue paying $850 per month for this non genetic child, regardless of the financial hardship it continues to create for his biological children living at home.
Our family has fought to reform RCW 26.26 for the past three years in the WA Legislature having run the following bills:
2014- SB 5997
2015- SB 5006 and HB 1524
2016- SB 6452 and HB 2612 "The Brandon Jones Act"
however Legislators have failed to pass this paramount reform.
Why are we asking for help now?
Andrew's non genetic child is turning 18 years old in April. We had hoped to finally be free of paying child support in June 2017 when the child was supposed to graduate from high school as the current support order states payment occurs until " the child turns 18, or as long as the child is attending high school; whichever occurs LAST".
Unfortunately, the child's mother has continued her foul and manipulative actions in pulling the child out of public school in the middle of her Sophomore year (January 2015) by filing the "Intent to Home School" form. The mother has since failed to educate the child for the past year and a half, but has now re-enrolled the child into public school in what was supposed to be the child's Senior year of high school. The child only has 3.5 of the required 24 credits to graduate. At the current deficit of credits acquired, it is not possible for the child to graduate from high school until the age of 21 years old.
Under WA law, it is available to students with educational deficits such as these to be allowed to attend school until age 21.
What this means is that Andrew will be legally responsible to continue paying child support for a non-genetic child until the age of 21, unless our family goes back to court to petition to modify the support order and request that support be terminated when the child turns 18 in April.
This request for help does not come lightly. Our family has prided itself on always dealing with our financial hurdles and being fiscally responsible. Unfortunately, we MUST raise $5000 to pay for attorney fees for this final court case, and we need to raise this money by January 1st, 2017.
We are determined to continue pushing for Legislative reform and are pursuing a new bill in the 2017 legislature titled "The Evans Family Relief Act".
Our family has spent countless hours of our time, talent and treasure to support the passage of Paternity reform, without ever asking for financial help. We have simply wanted to Stop Paternity Fraud for ALL families in WA, but we can't do this alone, and are humbly asking for financial help now.
Thank you all for showing your support and helping us in this final push for our freedom!
Please feel free to visit my blog for more information on our family's story and fight for legislative reform:
www.survivingpaternityfraud2ndwife.blogspot.com
Organizer
NL Evans
Organizer
Bremerton, WA
