Monmouth County Division of Social Services v. R.K.

LOCASCIO, J.S.C.

Will a man be required to continue to pay child support, which he has been obligated to pay for 10 years, based upon a voluntary admission of paternity signed within 10 months of the child’s birth, where he has been the only “father” the child, who bears his name, has ever known, despite genetic tests, administered 10 years after the birth, which exclude him and the mother’s husband as the biological father? This court, applying the doctrine of equitable estoppel, answers this question, of first impression, in the affirmative.

Three months after S.B.’s marriage to W.B., on May…