"There are legitimate reasons for this, so the child fits in with the already existing children in the family or so the child looks more like the social father, " said Mark Rothstein, director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky.

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The purpose of asset protection is not, repeat not, to defeat the collection rights of legitimate creditors, and certainly not things like child support or where the debtor has acted in contempt.

FORBES: Wrong.