My dad and his now ex-wife have been divorced for about 6 years. They met each other at a bar he would frequent at, she was the bartender. She was 21 years old, and he was 46… My dad had money, payed off all her student loans and payed off all her credit card debt… They shortly moved into a house together that they were renting… he bought her a Mercedes’ and their life seemed great! They had a little girl together and they ended up getting married 3 years into their relationship…she was like this young hip mom/grandma! she was good to me and my siblings and the grandkids… my daughter, niece, and little sister were only a year apart… so my step-mom would have all the girls all the time. My dad bought a house, built a pool and a huge deck and they would always have huge gatherings at their house. Well in a blink of an eye my dad was losing everything with the economy being bad… he owned a restaurant and tried so hard to keep it open! His wife was pregnant with their second child… I thought things were still good between them. My second little sister from them was born and My dad was forced to close his restaurant. Her first birthday approached and my dad was cooking all day on the grill for the party… he went in the house to go to sleep and my brother and his friends were at the house and I seen my dads wife drunk making out with my brothers friend… I never mentioned it to my dad because I knew it would crush him well things were getting bad… she was going out all the time and would leave for days at a time and leave my little sister with him… she was living a double life, she was now in a new relationship with my dads cousin. She said “I can’t be with someone broke” my dad eventually moved out into an apartment… he let her stay in the house for the sake of the girls. When they got a divorce she tried to drag all of his kids through the mud… ( I haven’t spoken to her since that day) I asked her why would you lie to the judge… “ she said I had to do what I had to do to keep my kids” my dad wasn’t trying to fight her for anything…my dad became age where he could apply for social security… well he was granted social security so my little sister who is now 10 receives benefits because she’s a minor and my dad is disabled… she’s been getting the benefits for her for a few years, we’ll last year she sprung it on my dad that the child wasn’t his and wants him to take a paternity test so her biological father can pay child support because he’s rich and they could really use the money… my dad refuses to take a paternity test and says he’s been taking care of this little girl for ten years why wait ten years to tell him he’s not the father!?!? And now she won’t let my dad see his little girl… does my dad have any rights? What should he do? I’m at a loss on how to help him, he’s so depressed and barely eating or anything… he loves that little girl so much… and we all knew for years that she wasn’t his she looks nothing like any of his other kids nor nothing like my dad or anyone in our family. But she still is our family regardless… what can I do? Please help!!!
Is he on the birth certificate?