Should I file for child support?

[Anonymous]

I'm almost 19 weeks pregnant; although it wasn't a planned pregnancy, I was still married to my unborn baby's dad at the time I fell pregnant, but he does not want anything to do with me or the baby.

Do I have the right to file for child support?

To give some background, He cheated on me, and although I have the proof to prove it, he still denies cheating. He even accused me of cheating on him and the baby not being his, and even though I have the proof to prove he did accuse me of cheating and I offered multiple times to do a DNA test to prove the baby is his as i have never cheated on him ever, he lied and said he never accused me of cheating. There was abuse on both of our parts, meaning I did verbally and emotionally abuse him while he threatened to physically harm me on more than one occasion, among other things, all of which I have evidence of. There is so much more, but this is just a small snippet of how things were between us.

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If you are going to attack me and accuse me of driving him away, are you not reading the part where I said he cheated on me and it wasn't once he cheated on me, he physically assaulted me while also threatening to basically kill me. If I uploaded the messages he sent to me, you would see he also abused me and he is now even going as far as blaming me for his childhood trauma when I was never in his life when we were kids. I never once cheated on him in the 8 years we were together and married

[Thisrandomname]

Yes get child support. I was raised by a single mother and my father never paid a cent. She struggled for 18 years raising me and my sister on a single low income, had to work her ass off and had no time for herself. For the sake of you and your child, get the money, please.

[Asker]

Thank you. I will definitely file for child support once the baby is born as I can't file legally until the baby is born. I really appreciate your advice. I am so so deeply sorry to hear your father not helping. Breaks my heart knowing parents don't step up to help.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely, what are you waiting for?

[Asker]

Baby isn't born so I can't legally file child support where i live until after the baby is born and because I have been so conflicted about what to do. Because I didn't know if I have the right to file child support or not.

[rizeliman34]

I m so sad for living that evets

[Asker]

I'm also sad

[rizeliman34]

What can it Do for u

[KrakenAttackin]

Maybe you should not have driven him away. Enjoy being a single mother who can only get laid but can't keep a man.

[Asker]

So I am in the wrong for him cheating on me even though I never cheated on him and remained faithful to him for all 8 years we were together and married? I am in the wrong for him physically assaulting me and threatening to kill me? And here you are saying I pushed him away.

I'm not the one who pushed all of my friends away like he has because he has treated everyone he knows like shit to the point they want nothing to do with him. His best friend of 20 years was going through a dark time and he didn't care. Your blaming me while giving him a pass for what he has done.

[Asker]

Your saying I can't keep a man, I'm the longest relationship he has ever had because his previous girlfriends he used them and ghosted them and he lead them on believing he wanted to marry them but he would dump them. He treated his other friend like crap that they ended up moving interstate and cutting contact with him. But hey let's blame me for pushing him away. He is almost 40 years old and living at home with his parents because he can't get his life together. His lost jobs because he kept showing up late among other things.

[KrakenAttackin]

You drove him away. If he was a shitty man in the first place why did you allow him to sew his seed in you?

[Guy13]

Ask attorney

[Dlickel]

If it is his yes

[Asker]

The baby is 100% his. I have never once cheated on him. We were together for 8 years