Question about Paternal rights in the Phil's

[Englishman2010]

As there is no evidence he would have to go to court anyone can "claim" what they like after all I do know that we have a similar situation except no contact as he is not on the birth certificate he doesnt legaly exist untill a competent authority says otherwise

Which means my missus can leave the country without any requirements vis her daughter as she has the sole respocnabilty legaly

Thanks Keith, that's what I thought too.
Her biggest concern is that the father may just decide to take the child one day and vanish. I don't imagine the Phil Police or authorities are as good or as well equipped to track down people as they are in the UK. It must be fairly easy to vanish into a backwater province?

I've told her to tell the father to go away until he has caught up with at least 6 years back child support, Birthday and Christmas presents, and then she might consider giving him supervised access for an hour to see how it goes.

The legal system in the UK does protect children and parents rights, but I imagine it's very different and not very often enforced over there?