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Only biological parents and people who are stepparents because they are the married or unmarried spouse of a parent are required to pay child support. When a man denies a responsibility to pay child support on the ground that he is not the child's father, the first thing the court will do is see whether he should be presumed to be the father because of the nature of his relationship with the child's mother. | Only biological parents and people who are stepparents because they are the married or unmarried spouse of a parent are required to pay child support. When a man denies a responsibility to pay child support on the ground that he is not the child's father, the first thing the court will do is see whether he should be presumed to be the father because of the nature of his relationship with the child's mother. | ||
Under s. 26(2) of the ''Family Law Act'', a man is presumed to be the biological father of a child in one of the following circumstances: | Under s. 26(2) of the ''[[Family Law Act]]'', a man is presumed to be the biological father of a child in one of the following circumstances: | ||
<blockquote><tt>(a) he was married to the child's birth mother on the day of the child's birth;</tt></blockquote> | <blockquote><tt>(a) he was married to the child's birth mother on the day of the child's birth;</tt></blockquote> | ||