K.H.M. v. D.L.I., Jr.

The child in this case, a girl, was born in April 1996. Before her birth, the child’s biological father made no attempt to support K.H.M., the child’s mother, either emotionally or financially. For several years following the child’s birth, the biological father showed no interest in, and took no steps toward, being involved in the child’s life.

The mother testified that when the child was seven months old she requested that the father pay child support but that he refused. The mother then sued the father to establish his paternity of the child and to force child-support payments, an effort in…