A local paternity case and others like it throughout the country are raising a firestorm of questions and concerns.
State legislatures and judges are grappling with questions that go to the heart of what defines being a father.
Pennsylvania says Mike is the father of his child - even though he can prove he's not the biological father.
When his daughter was 2-years-old, Mike found out his wife was having an affair. But his wife told him she would end it, and assured him that their child was his.
However, two years later, he found out that the affair was still going on and he demanded a paternity test.
"Got the results back and it was zero percent chance that I could be the biological father," said Mike.
Mike filed for divorce and after it was granted - his ex-wife remarried. But in the meantime, she sued Mike for child support even though DNA proved that he was not the biological father.
He went to court expecting an open and shut case. He was not the biological father; in fact, the child was now living with her biological father.
And yet, to his surprise, Judge David Wecht ruled that Mike had to pay child support - that under state law Mike was in fact the father of the child.
Wecht says what may appear to be an obvious case is less so under state paternity law, which says that when a child is born into an intact marriage the husband in that marriage is presumed to be the father.
The law pre-dates DNA testing and Wecht could not consider that evidence.
"All may know the truth that the science says, but the courts are required to blind themselves from the truth," said Judge Wecht.
State law also says there can be only one father, and deciding that Mike is that man - Wecht is requiring him to pay child support, which Mike says runs about $7,500 a year.
Todd Elliot, the attorney for Mike's ex-wife, says Wecht made the correct decision.
"The person you claim is not the biological father, actually is the father in every sense of the word," aid Elliot.
The child is now 11-years-old and has a room in Mike's house. Under custody agreements, Mike has regular visitation and other rights.
"He has a voice deciding where the child goes for health care, what school she goes to, what religion she's involved with, so he is a father to this child," added Elliot.
And it's those rights that make the case even more complicated.
Mike remains emotionally attached and wants to remain a key force in the child's life. He's even willing to support her financially. He just doesn't believe that the state should compel him to do so.
Judge Wecht believes that state law should be changed - that judges should be able to consider DNA evidence in deciding paternity cases.
Mike wants all babies in the state to be tested to resolve the questions of paternity at the time of birth.
But with hundreds of thousands of paternity tests being conducted every year, states across the union are trying to craft laws to deal with the results.
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