{"id":2637,"date":"2024-08-30T16:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/%e6%89%98%e5%8d%b5%e3%81%a8%e3%81%af\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T08:48:52","slug":"%e6%89%98%e5%8d%b5%e3%81%a8%e3%81%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/%e6%89%98%e5%8d%b5%e3%81%a8%e3%81%af\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Mendicancy and child support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mendicancy<\/strong> is the <strong>act of having another man&#8217;s child recognised as his own<\/strong>. In such cases, the <strong><mark>man who recognised him as<\/mark> the legal father<\/strong> may be <strong><mark>obliged to pay child support<\/mark><\/strong>. However, <strong>if a DNA test later reveals that he is not the father, the man may be exempted from paying child support<\/strong>, but the specific measures taken depend on national and local laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Japanese case law, <strong>there have been cases where the return of child support was not granted even after a DNA test revealed that the man was not the father.<\/strong> For example, in a Tokyo High Court case (15 July 2010), a man&#8217;s <strong>claim for the return of child support paid in the past was dismissed<\/strong> even though a DNA test revealed that he was not the father. In such cases, the <strong>welfare of the child<\/strong> takes <strong>priority<\/strong> and the obligation to pay child support may remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mendicancy is the act of having another man&#8217;s child recognised as his own. In s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-2637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-parent-child-relationship-en","8":"tag-beginner-en","9":"article"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiro-clinic.or.jp\/nippt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}