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I'm generally against genetic testing, and assumed this is where it was headed with the "but there's more...".
Your friend should get her cousins to confirm the father via DNA, and then contest his will when the fucker dies (assuming there is anything worth fighting for).
I'm not sure a DNA test would do Louann much good at this point. My guess is that PA didn't have robust mandatory child support laws back in the day. To get retroactive child support, she'd have to show how she was harmed by the absence of his financial contributions. Maybe a sympathetic jury would award her punitive damages for the guy's dickheadedness...
If I were in her shoes, I would have derived real satisfaction in calling out the guy for his cowardice and lying. I think she's moved on from this past craziness.
Something like this happened to a friend of mine from college, Louann. Her mother had gotten pregnant by her boyfriend while they were living in a very conservative small PA town in the 60s. Abortion was not an option. Boyfriend wouldn't marry her and denied he was the father. The young pregnant woman married an abusive guy whom she didn't love and gave birth to my friend Louann. Louann grew up without knowing who her real dad was and sensed that the abusive guy didn't love her.
Decades later Louann was trying to transfer to a better college; she was accepted on the provision that she keep her grades up. Her mother and the abusive guy decided that this was the ideal time to tell Louann the truth. She freaked out, her grades plummeted and she lost the transfer offer.
After graduating from college, Louann confronted her biological father. He still denied parentage and refused to take a paternity test. Winner.
But there's more! Louann's mother had a sister who was dating the TWIN BROTHER of the mother's boyfriend. Two sisters were dating two brothers at the same time. Louann's aunt married her twin boyfriend and had two kids with him. About five years after the birth of the second child, the aunt's husband abandoned the family to start a career in China. So Louann had two messed-up cousins who were related to her through her biological father and her aunt.
Louann's ex-boyfriend explained it all for me recently, at which point I said, "Talk about Pennsylvania Gothic."
I'm generally against genetic testing, and assumed this is where it was headed with the "but there's more...".
Your friend should get her cousins to confirm the father via DNA, and then contest his will when the fucker dies (assuming there is anything worth fighting for).
He denied it, but he was my birth father. Just found this today. Of course, no one let me know.
Something like this happened to a friend of mine from college, Louann. Her mother had gotten pregnant by her boyfriend while they were living in a very conservative small PA town in the 60s. Abortion was not an option. Boyfriend wouldn't marry her and denied he was the father. The young pregnant woman married an abusive guy whom she didn't love and gave birth to my friend Louann. Louann grew up without knowing who her real dad was and sensed that the abusive guy didn't love her.
Decades later Louann was trying to transfer to a better college; she was accepted on the provision that she keep her grades up. Her mother and the abusive guy decided that this was the ideal time to tell Louann the truth. She freaked out, her grades plummeted and she lost the transfer offer.
After graduating from college, Louann confronted her biological father. He still denied parentage and refused to take a paternity test. Winner.
But there's more! Louann's mother had a sister who was dating the TWIN BROTHER of the mother's boyfriend. Two sisters were dating two brothers at the same time. Louann's aunt married her twin boyfriend and had two kids with him. About five years after the birth of the second child, the aunt's husband abandoned the family to start a career in China. So Louann had two messed-up cousins who were related to her through her biological father and her aunt.
Louann's ex-boyfriend explained it all for me recently, at which point I said, "Talk about Pennsylvania Gothic."
