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Child Support

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Updated: 
December 22, 2023

If I care for a child who is not biologically mine and s/he has a baby, am I responsible to help support the baby?

Any person, agency, organization or institution that stands in loco parentis, which means “in place of a parent,” of a minor unemancipated child who has a baby may be secondarily liable for the support of the minor child if the judge orders this. The minor parent(s), however, still have a duty to support their child.1

1 NCGS § 50-13.4(b)