Minnesota Paternity Law

Our firm has handled thousands of cases involving fathers asserting their paternity rights. We have filed paternity complaints containing requests for adjudication, blood tests, custody rights, parenting time schedules, and appropriate child support. We have also represented clients who have been served with a complaint, but deny their paternity.

As mothers will typically have the County Attorney's Office alligned on their side in a Minnesota paternity action, it is imperative that fathers, whether they are seeking or denying paternity, have strong representation. Fathers need to know that they could be on the hook for as much as two years of retroactive support payments, confinement or birthing expenses, related medical costs, prior child care costs, and reimbursement for public assistance provided to mothers.

It is very important to understand that fathers, when unmarried, are given no custodial rights, unless they affirmatively seek such rights. Child support, however, may be taken from a father even before his legal rights to see his child is established.