Fathers Must Pay Child Support for Pregnancy and Delivery Medical Costs.
This bill requires biological fathers to cover at least 50% of the mother's reasonable out-of-pocket medical expenses incurred during pregnancy and delivery, provided the mother requests the payment. This aims to ease the financial burden on mothers related to prenatal care and childbirth. Expenses related to abortion are explicitly excluded from this requirement.
Key points
New child support obligation: Biological fathers must pay at least 50% of the mother's reasonable out-of-pocket medical costs for pregnancy and delivery.
States must establish and enforce these new prenatal support obligations upon the mother's request.
Costs associated with abortion are specifically excluded from the definition of medical expenses covered by this requirement.
Status:
Introduced
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