A friend of mine has 4 kids and was not married to their father. For the first kid he went and acknowledged it officially, with the other three they didn't bother anymore, also kind of forgot about it.My husband and I got married so I will get his pension and he could add me to his insurance. The insurance is not free, but it’s better than what I can get on the exchange. We keep everything else separate.
Who says romance is dead?
Tragically he died leaving her with a 6,5, 3 year old and and a newborn. She doesn't get any pension, the oldest one got orphan support immidiatly, for the other 3 she had to do paternity tests to prove it which took months and she had to pay for them. Back then those were quite expensive and she had to borrow money to do it. Her in-laws suddenly started to have a problem with her and didn't acknowledge her any more, so since they stupidly had the car and lots of insurances via her in-laws company they even took her car away. She could not even have a say in the funeral. The kids were officially the heirs, so she had to pay lot of money for lawyers to sort things out how to get the (little) money which left on some accounts. It was an ugly mess. She was of course devasted and not in the condition to deal with things like that . So unless you have millions from your families yeast company go and marry (if there are kids) or at least make a proper testament and make it now because no, there's not still enough time to do it later.