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Fathers Rights

Sacramento Lawyers: Fathers' Rights and Paternity Actions

Many parties can benefit when the paternity of a child is legally established through a paternity test.
  • The child's biological father can gain parental rights, including visitation, and have a say in the child's upbringing.
  • The mother can pursue child support payments.
  • Men who are unrelated to the child can show they have no legal obligation.
  • The child's right to know his or her father, however, is the most important benefit of all.
At the Louder Law Group, our family law attorneys represent all parties involved in paternity actions. The majority of our clients in this area of practice, however, are men seeking to establish the paternity of their children.
Fighting for Fathers' Rights

During pregnancy, an unwed father's rights are non-existent unless they are voluntarily granted by the mother. After a child is born, fathers have rights, but they must fight for them.

Unless you legally establish the paternity of your child, you have no say in his or her upbringing — even if you have lived together as a family for years and financially supported the child. The mother can move away with the children without your knowledge or consent. You do not even have the right to visit your child.

Children's Rights

California law recognizes that it is in the child's best interest to have an ongoing emotional and financial relationship with both parents. Establishing paternity is the first step to achieving this goal.

Fashioning a Solution that Fits Your Family

Our attorneys use our considerable powers of persuasion and negotiation to craft a workable child custody and visitation agreement early in the process, when the parties are often most willing to compromise.

In most cases parents share legal custody of their children, which includes decisions about education, medical care and religious upbringing. Typically one parent is awarded primary physical custody of the children; visitation or parenting time is given to the non-custodial parent. Increasingly, however, parents share joint physical custody, in which the children split their time equally between their parents' households.

Our family law attorneys will help you consider all the options and create a plan that works for you and your children. To learn how we can help, please contact us today. The initial consultation is free.

From our offices in Sacramento, we represent clients throughout Northern California.
The Linda Louder Law Group provides representation to clients from their Sacramento location, in Northern California, to communities including Sacramento, Woodland, Nevada City, Yuba City, Marysville, Auburn, Roseville, Rocklin, Fair Oaks, Granite Bay, Folsom, Lodi, Stockton, Fairfield, Vallejo, Elk Grove, Davis, Vacaville, UC Sacramento, UC Davis; and counties including Sacramento County, El Dorado County, Placer County, Yolo County, Yuba County, Sutter County, Solano County, San Joaquin County, and SAC, Foothills, and Gold Country, and the following roads, I-5, I-505, I-80 and Highways 99, 49, 50, 16, 113, 70, 65, and 84.


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