User talk:Belgiumfamilylaw

Can a user who is from Belgium answer this question for me? I may have to ask a follow up question.

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I am doing some research on Belgium Family law for a research paper in the United States. I hope that you understand English. Can you please answer these questions for me? A child born outside the marriage has to be acknowledged by the father. He has to do this with consent of the mother and in an authentic act by a notary or by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. I mean for a one night stand, adulterous or even incestuous relationship and parent have never lived tougher. This could be different for separated cohabitees. I was told by some body that in Belgium, a father can not have any legal rights if the mother does not give him permission to acknowledge the child and that a court’s can not intervene if the parents are never married. I was also told that if the father does not acknowledge the child he can never be made to pay child support and a court’s can not intervene. I have read some that this is not true in Belgium and some where this is true. What is the truth in Belgium, I do not know, so I am asking you the expert? Belgium on the initiative of its Socialist Party now has implemented presumptive 50/50 joint physical custody legislation and was formally published by the Belgian Federal Government on the 4th of September 2006. This is how it usually goes in Belgium when parents divorce. This is no the default fixed end-result for all divorcing or separating Belgian parents. Does this also apply to children that are born in a one night stand, adulterous or even incestuous relationship or separated cohabitees, yes or no? Would a DNA test be ordered if the father asks the court for a DNA test, because he will only accepts paternity if a DNA test proves he is the father? Is it very difficult for a mother in Belgium to get court ordered child support if the father is willing to take 50/50 joint physical custody (published by the Belgian Federal Government on the 4th of September 2006) if he is a fit father, yes or no. Would this be the same if he child was conceived in a one night stand, adulterous or even incestuous relationship or separated cohabitees? My sources are. I was told some fact by some friends of mine that I am not sure is true. This is considered Hearsay, is information gathered by Person A from Person B concerning some event, condition, or thing of which Person A had no direct experience. http://fatherknowledgecentre.wordpress.com/category/belgium/ http://www.dadsontheair.net/belgium/ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8001198.html http://fatherknowledgecentre.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/00008/ http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/63676 http://fkce.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/20090103-presentation-by-peter-tromp-in-greece-benefits-of-post-divorce-shared-parenting-and-the-netherlands-belgium-and-germany.pdf http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/research/childsupport/Belgium.pdf
 * Hello. A good place to ask would be at the Reference desk, probably on the Humanities subdesk. Fribbler (talk) 16:39, 29 August 2009 (UTC)