Guidance

Child maintenance: what happens when someone denies they are the parent of a child: leaflet

This leaflet explains what happens when someone named as the parent of a child in a child maintenance case denies that they are the parent.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
26 March 2013
Last updated
30 June 2014 — See all updates

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[Withdrawn] What happens when someone denies they are the parent of a child?

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78153-314-7, CMSB010GB

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This leaflet explains how the Child Maintenance Service investigates parentage disputes, and what happens during the investigation. It explains how disputes like this can affect child maintenance, how we sort them out and what happens after we have sorted them out.

Find out more about child maintenance.

Child maintenance leaflets in other formats

Phone 0800 171 2345

TexBox and textphone number 0800 232 1975

This leaflet is available in Welsh, Braille and in print.

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Published 26 March 2013
Last updated 30 June 2014 + show all updates

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