Yeah, the according to US Federal law, the states as well as the federal government can cooperate with any foreign government on their own.
One time I actually found the documents online the woman would have to send from overseas to the child support authorities which established "proof" that someone is the father, the things required are pretty laughably vague, there is a questionnaire that asks something like , if she wasn't married to the father, "Were you living with him and not having sex with anyone else?"
That is actually considered EVIDENCE hahhah. '
But I don't think that's conclusive enough, what seems to be the big thing is if you were married there might be a presumption of fatherhood, if she can get it together to file in the USA.
One thing I've done by just being a beta loser, is just get old. If they start giving me shit about retroactive back support when I'm 70, I'll just give them the finger and keel over.
One of my friends had his passport taken away and they had him in court when the daughter was 20 and in college. Her mother had kidnapped her when she was three and changed the kid's name so the father lost all contact with the daughter all through her childhood. His only contact was them suing him for child support. His daughter, after trying and failing to get money from him as a young adult; has almost no contact with him.
The Bold below is from this web site:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86823.pdf
In addition to providing authority for federal-level child support declarations, 42 U.S.C. 659a provides that:
The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), which has been adopted by every state, provides that a state may enter into reciprocal arrangements for the enforcement of child support obligations with a foreign country that has procedures the state determines to be substantially similar to UIFSA. Information about U.S. states and other jurisdictions that have reciprocal arrangements with other countries is available on the HHS/ACF/OCSE Intergovernmental Referral Guide Public Map Page (IRG) under the heading “reciprocity” for each state.
7 FAM 1756 MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS
(CT:CON-449; 03-25-2013)
The United States is not a party to any existing multilateral child support convention. The United States actively participated in the negotiation of a new multilateral convention on child support under the auspices of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The United States signed the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance on November 23, 2007. The U.S. Senate provided its advice and consent to ratification of the Convention on September 29, 2010. The Convention is not yet in force for the United States, as implementing legislation has not yet been enacted at the Federal or State levels. We encourage other countries to consider becoming a party to this Convention. See The Hague Conference Internet page under works in progress, Maintenance Obligations. Address questions about this Convention to CA/OCS/L ([email protected]).
7 FAM 1757 CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AND PARENTAL CHILD ABDUCTION
(CT:CON-327; 05-11-2010)
According to the U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement policy issuance Dear Colleague Letter (DCL-99-19), “there is no Federal mandate under title IV-D of the Social Security Act that requires IV-D agencies to enforce child support where a custody dispute exists. The State IV-D agency clearly has discretion not to proceed in providing child support enforcement services in cases of disputed custody, even where there is a State or Federal reciprocity agreement with the
"[s]tates may enter into reciprocal arrangements for the establishment and enforcement of support obligations with foreign countries that are not the subject of a [federal] declaration ...to the extent consistent with Federal law."