The defaulting parent law has some differences from state to state, and while federal defaulting parent laws are rarely enforced, federal protection for some defaulting parents is stoically enforced by child support enforcement agencies, audience, the general magistrates and even the judges. This particular group of ‘perpetuating’ dads are not only ‘exempt’ from state and federal deadbeat dad laws, they also happen to be the greatest disgrace to dads everywhere. They’re lazy military dads, and if you think ‘the military doesn’t allow their men to be ‘failure dads’, you’re wrong.
The law known as SCRA, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, protects enlisted men who are overseas from a variety of civil lawsuits, including paternity tests and divorce. One of the first sticking points is the paternity test. We all know that the child support application doesn’t exactly go out of its way to get paternity proof and if your children’s ‘paternal genetic template’ is military and designated ‘active duty’, you can invoke the SCRA.
Some royal lawyers can and will challenge the invocation, because there are in fact provisions in it that say it cannot be used to blur obligations in civil life. All military personnel have their DNA registered right here in the US, so there’s no need to fly home from the war to get the blood tests of the old days. Refusing to give permission to submit your DNA for paternity testing is nothing more than ‘avoiding the obligations of civil life’, but the CSE and ‘their’ attorneys do not provide the litigation necessary to make that argument in court.