My ex- girlfriend (Khmer) may be pregnant. I'm afraid she is going to use this baby to extort money from me. We agreed to have no babies, but now she's saying she's going to keep it, even if I don't want it.

What are my options here? What is the Cambodian law regarding paternity? I've checked online but I can't find any answers.

Are they able to force a blood test? Are they able to garnish salary?

Cappy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:01 pm My ex- girlfriend (Khmer) may be pregnant. I'm afraid she is going to use this baby to extort money from me. We agreed to have no babies, but now she's saying she's going to keep it, even if I don't want it.

What are my options here? What is the Cambodian law regarding paternity? I've checked online but I can't find any answers.

Are they able to force a blood test? Are they able to garnish salary?

You have the option taken by many young Khmer guys................see below!

Suck it up.

Cappy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:01 pm
What are my options here? What is the Cambodian law regarding paternity? I've checked online but I can't find any answers.

This is Cambodia.....................................

Cappy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:01 pm My ex- girlfriend (Khmer) may be pregnant. I'm afraid she is going to use this baby to extort money from me. We agreed to have no babies, but now she's saying she's going to keep it, even if I don't want it.

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What are my options here? What is the Cambodian law regarding paternity? I've checked online but I can't find any answers.

Are they able to force a blood test? Are they able to garnish salary?

Too much missing information! She "may be pregnant?". For Crissakes go to a doctor with her and find out..

How long has it been since you had sex with your " former girlfriend? "

If she is preggies definitely have a blood test. If there is a match and she refuses an abortion then you do owe some form of negotiated support which is a moral obligation to her and your. child. That is hardly extortion. I hope for her sake she isn't pregnant.

It might not even be yours ...

She is testing your response. Even if she says a doctor has confirmed she is pregnant do not believe her. If she really is pregnant you have four or five choices. Run, suck it up, abort, sell it, dump it in an orphanage.

Just been through this getting a European passport for a kid.
Mum has sole rights in Cambodia unless you are married. If you want to exercise parental rights you have to go to the commune and lay claim to the child.
She may put you on the birth certificate but they often do not because no one knows how to write the English name. Depends on the commune chief.

If you need a paternity test do not get it done locally. There are a couple of places but they send them off to Vietnam or Thailand and you don't know the quality and its expensive and useless in court later on if you want to get the child a passport or take him home (assuming he/she is yours)
You can organize a paternity test yourself or through your embassy depending on where you are from. Check with them. Tests are sent to the embassy or a recognized tester, usually Raffles Clinic or the IOM. Then you go and it is all witnessed and sent away. results back in a week or so. Costs vary depending on which country the test is done in but a full,legal, 100% immigration test is generally going to set you back around $1000 if you arrange it yourself. that includes witnessing, taking the samples and courier both ways.
A simple quick check at a foreign lab (Australia, uk, US) will cost $300-$400 but it is not admissibale in court or for immigration purposes

Che wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:52 pm She is testing your response. Even if she says a doctor has confirmed she is pregnant do not believe her. If she really is pregnant you have four or five choices. Run, suck it up, abort, sell it, dump it in an orphanage.

Next choice - Take care of your responsibilities.

AndyKK wrote: [quote=Che post_id=199588 time=<a href="tel:1509097929">1509097929</a> user_id=9324]
She is testing your response. Even if she says a doctor has confirmed she is pregnant do not believe her. If she really is pregnant you have four or five choices. Run, suck it up, abort, sell it, dump it in an orphanage.

Next choice - Take care of your responsibilities.
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Yup. Taking care of responsibilities was second in the last “suck it up”