Fraud is illegal in every aspect of the law except for in paternity cases where the little ladies can blatantly deceive a man into thinking he is the father of a child and even when proved that he isn't, collect child support from him. If a woman is caught doing this, she is rarely if ever prosecuted or required to pay the man back.

Notable examples:

- Sixteen months after his divorce, Richard Parker, a Florida resident, discovered via DNA testing that the child he was paying support for was not his. Florida justices ruled 7-0 against him, stating that Parker must continue to pay $1,200 a month in child support, because he had missed the one-year post divorce deadline for filing his lawsuit. His court-ordered payments total $216,000 over the next fifteen years.

- In New Mexico, Steve Barreras was forced to pay a total of $20,000 for a daughter that never existed.

- The Taron James paternity fraud case is one of the most egregious examples of the abuses the child support enforcement system visits upon men. James enlisted in the Navy at age 20 in the days leading up to the first Persian Gulf War, and carried out hazardous reconnaissance missions behind Iraqi lines in the war's aftermath. While serving in Iraq, James was notified that a woman he knew back home was demanding that he pay child support for her newborn son. James knew from the beginning that the child could not possibly be his. The Navy's Judge Advocate General is not authorized to handle a serviceman's legal problems outside of the military justice system, but a sympathetic captain helped him obtain an agreement from the child's mother for a DNA test. Before the test could be done, however, the mother reneged on the agreement and disappeared with the child. Despite subsequent legal appeals and an April, 2001 DNA test which confirmed that the child is not his, the courts have refused to set aside the judgment. In the years since the D.A. and later Los Angeles County Child Support Services have: seized James' tax refund for six years in a row; blocked him from renewing his notary public license, which in turn caused him to lose his job as the manager of a business; ruined his credit, denying him the chance to purchase the business at a low price when the owner offered it to him for sale; blocked him from obtaining a passport; and forced him to drop out of college before finishing his degree. James later appealed and the courts ordered him to stop paying child support, however the California Appeal court ruled that James is not entitled to reimbursement for the money stolen from him.

Why do women continuously get away with fraud?