Kingwood Child Support and Paternity Attorney
When a child's parents are unmarried, a paternity action may be used to legally establish the relationship between father and child. After a father's identity has been recognized, he can seek child custody and visitation rights. Similarly, a mother can seek child support payments once paternity has been established.
Indeed, establishing paternity is most important for a child - both legally and emotionally. A son or daughter gains the right to benefit financially from his or her father - not only through child support payments, but also Social Security benefits, any benefits offered if the father is a veteran, and inheritance. Additionally, a child may gain the right to access certain medical information in some cases.
A Trusted and Experienced Paternity Rights Attorney
Paternity lawyer H. Steven Byers represents clients throughout Harris County in paternity cases and related legal matters. If you are a mother who is seeking child support payments from the father of your child, we can explain your legal options for establishing paternity and seeking the support you are entitled to receive. If you are the father of a child, but are unmarried to the mother, you will need to establish paternity before you can seek child custody and visitation rights.
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To speak to a paternity lawyer about fathers' custody rights, seeking child support payments, and other legal matters, contact our law firm in Kingwood.
