The New Jersey Supreme Court overturned two lower court decisions by declaring that a man cannot recoup child support payments he made for a son he later found out was not his own. The ruling was based on a state law that requires such challenges to be brought before the child turns 23.
The Plaintiff, identified only as Roy, didn’t find out until well after the child turned 23 that he wasn’t the biological father. He argued that the time limit of age 23 shouldn’t apply, since it was through no fault of his own that he didn’t discover the child’s true paternity. Although the two lower courts decided the biological father should owe child support, the state’s highest court disagreed.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/07/17/support.lawsuit.ap/index.html
