Only require child maintenance from fathers listed on birth certificate

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Only require child maintenance from fathers listed on birth certificate

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The Government should change the rules for child maintenance, so that mothers can only apply for child maintenance when the birth father is listed on the birth certificate.

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This would help to prevent mothers who refuse to voluntarily add the father to the birth certificate from seeking to claim child maintenance from a man who may not be the father. It would also prevent men who dispute the fatherhood and don’t feel they should have to pay maintenance from having to pay for a DNA test to prove it (could be hundreds of pounds).

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