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I’ve recently been contacted by an ex girlfriend and told that I’m the father of her 17-year-old daughter. She’s threatened to take me to court to get 20% of my earnings and backdated payments to 1999. Her daughter isn’t in full time education to my knowledge. Do I have any financial obligations towards her?

Do you accept that she is in fact your daughter? If she has left school then you will have no financial obligation towards her in any case, and the Child Maintenance Service will not entertain backdated claims. If the girl hasn’t left school and the CMS is asked to contact you by your ex girlfriend they could order a DNA test if you deny paternity; that would resolve the issue one way or the other.

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