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Legal right to the property, no. Legal right to financial support for the child assuming they have custody, yes. That could potentially result in sale of the property, or an agreement to get the property in lieu of other assistance.

This should be the same regardless of which parent owns the house, but it is less common for fathers to receive child support.

Alternate details that could make it a bit more grey.
If the other parent lived in the house for a significant time while pregnant, tenancy laws could get complicated.
If the parent owning the house dies, especially without a will, the child would have a legal right to some inheritance, even with a will there could be arguments for some level of inheritance.

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nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

it is less common for fathers to receive child support.

I had sole custody of one of my kids, and not only could i not get child support, i was still having to pay support to the other parent.

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- andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  this has to be the dumbest thing i’ve read today.
  
  it should be mentioned that i am not attacking you (the person who said they had to pay child support) … i’m attacking a system that would allow this. what in the taco bell shitting hell was going through a persons head when they wrote that law?
  
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  - AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sometimes it’s not the wording of the law but the way it’s implemented. Sometimes the law can seem quite egalitarian, but that doesn’t help if the mother is always assumed both the default custodian and less income. Thats no longer as true as it used to be but judges can be old fashioned
    
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- ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What the law says and what happens can be very different unfortunately.
  
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- Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  My (adopted) step father got custody over my mother for my siblings and I. My mother was on disability, so we got SSI checks (like $40 bucks a month per kid, in the late 1990’s.
  
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- Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Murica
  
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Technically, you’re only entitled to child support if a judge determines you are. While pregnancies from one night stands will usually require the father to pay child support, there are some exceptions (like if another parent adopts the kid.)

Additionally, those funds are only supposed to be used for the kid, and not for anyone else, so if the other parent is found to be neglecting things, they may lose custody altogether and instead owe child support.

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