Legally:
Best Interest argument is the willingness and ability of
each parent to facilitate and encourage a close and continuing
relationship between the other parent and the child. The
court shall presume that the maximum involvement and cooperation
of both parents regarding the physical, mental, moral and
emotional well-being of their child is in the best interest
of the child.
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Many
have argued that it is not just biological DNA that determines
a father’s relationship but an old English traditional
law entrenched in “the best interests of t he child”
and the father is honor bound to do the chivalrous thing and
go blind to the facts of the matter and support the child and
mother. So if it is not just DNA that establishes paternity
– and it is all pervasive throughout the American Court
System – then it can not just be money and child support
that establishes paternity.
