I really need help with this and appreciate any feedback, I hope we have some legal eagles around.
Basic plot of the story is 15 year old girl is abducted by her older boyfriend and taken to his house in the middle of nowhere, he keeps her in his attic and when she's 17 gives birth to a daughter. Five years later and she manages to escape and get help. Most of my story is what happens next, as she tries to rebuild her life while dealing with what happened to her and how it affected her daughter. But I'm stuck on certain legal bits. The trial was the easy bit!
So, if a child is unknown to the authorities for the first five years of their life, how would their mother register their birth? And would she be able to add the father's name to the birth certificate?
Next thing is child maintenance, kid's father is in prison, would he have to pay it? (He does have a huge inheritance stashed away if that makes any difference, that the kid's mother only found out about after she escaped. She thought he was 'normal'.)
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SapphireSeptember · 26/07/2016 22:06
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