>1 - Is an administrative judgment establishing the legal
>status of a father (yes, I understand that this is NOT the
>same thing as "custodial" status) really rendered worthless
>just by crossing state lines? What about full faith and
>credit?
You don't have a judgment filed in a court. You have a statute that creates the "effect" of a judgment, which a court of the state in which the statute applies must recognize. But, the full faith and credit clause only applies to actual final judgments of a court in one of the several states, and you don't have one of those. So, GA authorities do not have to recognize your claim of
paternity.
There may be GA case law which has already dealt with this issue and which recognizes the acknowledgement of paternity as having the effect of a judgment. If so, then the child's mother is wrong and you are right. If not, then you need a GA court to declare you the legal parent on the basis of the evidence appearing on the face of your acknowledgement of paternity from the other state.
Which, unfortunately, means filing suit against the mother in GA to establish yourself as the legal father. If you do, I doubt that the GA court will do much more than say, "Yep, so ordered," and then you'll have an actual final judgment declaring you the father. But, until you get that judgment, you will continue to have problems.
>2 - The signed papers consistent of written and witnessed
>acknowledgments of paternity, administrated by the Dept of
>Social Services, and, through statute, given the effect of a
>judgment.Would it be possible to domesticate a foreign
>administrative judgment?
It's not a judgment. A judgment is an order of a court that fully and finally adjudicates the issues brought before it. An acknowledgement of paternity is a document which is given the power of a judgment in the state where the document was issued consistent with state law. But, outside of that state, it's not a judgment, so you can't domesticate/register it as a judgment, because...(everybody sing):
"It's NOT A JUDGMENT!" :-)
>
>3 - Regardless of the validity of the out-of-state papers, the
>GA law seems only to apply to births occuring in the state of
>GA, subsequently affecting only parental relationships between
>parents and their children who are born in the state of GA.
>The present-tense "ARE not married WHEN the child is born"
>suggests that the law is only meant to be applied in the
>present-tense at a very specifc time (when the child is born).
>Since no state, obviously, can pass a law which affects
>citizens OUTSIDE ITS JURIDICTION, then this law would not have
>been applicable at the time of our child's birth. And, due to
>the present-tense restraint, it does not appear to operate
>retroactively. (That is, it does not say "parents WERE not
>married".) In other words, this law seems 1) to be applicable
>to parents-children born in the state of GA only, 2) does not
>provide, correctly, for any jurisdictional crossing, either at
>the time of a child's birth OR after the fact.
>
>Does this seem like a proper legal interpretation?
I appreciate your trying to think like a lawyer. But, your argument is irrelevant, because the acknowledgement of paternity that you have is (everybody sing):
"NOT A JUDGMENT."
>
>4 - There has never been a
court order affecting legal rights
>or custody issues here in GA. If my legal rights as a father
>are indeed intact, and I have consistently demanded for my
>child to be returned to me, then would not the absence of a
>court order or statute to protect the mother's withholding of
>our child open the possibility of civil liability (on her
>part) for parental interference?
Nope. You're not the legal father, because you don't have a judgment of paternity, which apparently, is the only thing that GA law recognizes.
So, file suit for paternity in GA, and submit the acknowledgement of paternity as substantivy proof of you being the father, and allege that you are the father (and, frankly, I would demand a paternity test, to make absolutely certain that you ARE the father, because if you're not, then you are FREEEEEEEEE of all this horse!@#$!).
Then, if you are found to be the father from the DNA test, then the court will issue a judgment stating so, and that will be the end of this particular issue -- and the beginning of another.
In closing, please do not refer to the other parent as a narrcisist in this forum. She may be evil and she may not, but on this board, I don't permit derogatory remarks about parties to a case, because it intimidates others from posting here for help, when they think that maybe I believe that certain groups of persons are inherently bad (or good).
If you persist, I'll just delete all of your posts without review, going forward.