[Avodah] A question of Yichus

[Doron Beckerman]

The question is: Is there any way to remove the obligation to pay child
> support for this child WITHOUT making the child a mamzer. The husband is
> willing to have his name on the ID and legal papers of the child, he just
> doesn't want to pay for someone else's kid.

RZS writes in response:
>>  If that's all he wants, there is a very simple solution: let him tell
the
mother that if she ever makes any financial demands of him for the child's
support, he will exercise his halachic power to declare the child a mamzer.
If he were to do so the child would be a mamzer, and there is nothing any
rabbi could do to prevent it.  It's entirely in his hands. <<

I'm not sure it is that simple. If he indeed has his name on the ID and
legal papers, by affixing his signature on these documents (if
necessary) he will have established a chazakah that it is his child and he
cannot undo that via "yakir."  See Rema EH 4:28.
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