Topic : 12/25 Parent Trap

Maria falsified legal documents! Not only did she falsify the birth certificate. She also falsified the documents she used to file for child support!

I can't believe Maria insisted that he should continues child support.... Ridiculous!

Not only should he stop paying child support.... she must reimburse him for all of the additional child support he has paid for the child that is not legally his. Furthermore, after he gets his money back, Enrique should definetly press charges against Maria for falsifying the documents and push for jail time.... He needs to contact his district attorney...

By the way, all of this is coming from a 22 year old man who's "dead-beat" dad never paid child support and who's mother is currently sueing for the $30,000 he owes. So, with that said, I fully beleive in chasing "dead-beat" dads and in the child-support system..... But Enrique is not the legal father! How can there be any further discussion after that?

And in rebuttel to that "lawyer lady" who tried to defend Maria (miserably).... yes, Enrique did some unethical and perhaps immoral things to the 10 year old.... but he didn't do anything illegal! In fact, Maria blatently commited fraud, and admitted to it!

WHERE IS THE ARGUMENT?

Thank you....

I COULDN'T AGREE MORE!

I think it's sad that a mother can lie to the child for so many years, what if the girl starts dating a boy and it could end up being her brother, all because the mother lies about the real father. On another note this mother is lucky the only thing she came away from unprotected sex is a child. What if she came away with a HIV aids and a baby? Whats next she has aids, the baby has aids and the husband gets aids.

This mother deserves all the grief she gets and she should do everything in her power to try to unite her daughter and the father that took care of her for ten years. She should make the child realize that what Enrique did to her was all about getting back at his cheating wife and he was hurt and he does deserve a second chance. And then the mom should do her very best to find the biological father and introduce him to his daughter and make him pay for the product he bought 13 years ago.

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This story is so sad,  the dad made a mistake to tell the girl, but the mother should be responsable for what she did.  She want's to blame it all on him but she is the one to be blamed.  The daughter should be mad with her mother more than him, for being such a liar.  I think that if her step dad wants to adopt her he should have that privelage if the girl feels confortable with it.

Dr. Phil I was ecstatic to see the show that you did on paternity fraud.

I am a 36 year old mother that has a 17year old beautiful daughter who simply wants to meet her biological father.  I have contacted his father and his twin brother and no one will give me any contact information for him.  I am not seeking a paternity test of my daughter due to the fact that I don't want anything from him.  My daughter simply wanted the opportunity to meet him, to see him.  I don't know what else to do, and It is obvious that she has a void.  She recently made the comment in reference to her biological father, her step father and her God father,  She said that she has 3 fathers and the three of them to together only equals to a dead beat dad in her life.  My daughter found out when she was 12 years old that her step father wasn't her biological father, and we have been trying to reach her biological father every since with no success, its almost as if  his family is hiding him, I have stated to them on many occasions that we don't want anything from him, just for my daughter to have the opportunity to meet him.  I am lost and I don't know what else to do or where else to turn, I cant financially afford to hire a private investigator, so my daughter has been forced to carry the void that would be resolved in one simple meeting.

I hope there is someone that can help me or lead me to the proper person to receive help!

Firstly, I don't condone the decision that Enrique made to completely cut off relationship with his "daughter" Selena. However, I think can understand why he did so. Selena was the personification of his wife's betrayal. She had an affair with another man and did not come clean until he began to question Selena's parentage. She actively engaged in a lie to keep from getting into trouble. The girl he raised as his own was a product of lust, deceit and betrayal. Again, I don't condone his decision to completely cut Selena out. That was wrong. It was also wrong for the judge to force Enrique to pay for her support. Why can he not be a father without paying for this child who is not biologically his?

The situation would have been different if Maria told him right away that she had an affair and that her affair  called the paternity of Selena into question. They may have divorced and he would have had to pay nothing on the grounds of her infidelity. He may have decided to continue because his wife atleast told him right away instead of waiting nearly a decade. Had he known Selena was not his child right after she was born and made the choice to raise her as is own anyway, he would, in my opinion, then have been liable for child support after the divorce.

Maria's choice to come clean only when she was cornered bears the greatest burden responsibility though Enriques actions are most responsible for the emotional betrayal of Selena.