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If you are not the child's parent (biological or adoptive), you should not be paying support.

This fully depends on the circumstances. If you were married at the time of the birth, you can. There's current a New York case where an ex-husband pays child support to the mother whose now married to the biological father.

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Why are you the presumed father? Are you saying that your ex-wife adopted a child and now wants you to pay child support for that child whom you personally did not adopt? If so no, you do not owe child support for a child that is not yours.

She adopted before we got married and I never attempted to adopt him after we got married a year later. After six years we are now getting divorced and wants me to pay child support.

You ex-wife believes that when you married her, you became the father of her adopted child - and presumably, you did function as the child's step-father while you were married. But as far as I can tell (and I am not actually a laywer) you do not owe child support for this child, since he is not actually your child. The whole concept of child support is that men who choose to have children, or even men who accidentally father children, are financially responsible for them. But you have no responsibility here; your ex-wife already had this child before you married her. You did not in any way cause her to have the child or to be burdened with the cost of raising him. That was her choice and she did it without your help. So it seems like a clear situation to me.

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