Posted by Beth, Muddert3@aol.com, on 2/02/01

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I have a situation here where 11 years ago, I gave birth to
a little girl with Down's Syndrome. My boyfriend at the
time (now my ex-husband) was thought to be her father, but
through HLA blood testing we found out otherwise. He has
always acted as her daddy and we have never contacted her
biological father. She knows only my ex as her dad and has
never met or heard of another man being her father. I have
since filed a child support petition through Domestic
Relations and our case has been labeled as "Complex" and we
will be going to court. The attorney who is handling my
case is going with the "in loco parentis" fight, saying
even after finding out 7 years ago that our daughter wasn't
biologically his, he still held himself to be daddy and
never disclosed the information of her true paternity to
even his family. His attorney is denying that. To this
day, he still gets her every other weekend and doesn't
treat her any differently than he did the day she was
born. Anyway, I have been going crazy trying to research
cases similar to mine on the internet and have hit a wall.
Does anyone know of any web-sites that I can visit that
will give me some in-depth information on "step-parents and
child support" or "in loco parentis". I have already
looked in the Domestic Relations web site and they didn't
really have anything new to say. Pennsylvania cases and
law would be great but I will look at anything at this
point just to gain more knowledge. Thanks

Re: Looking for information on in loco parentis, 9/02/03, by kathy N..

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