When we last checked in on Bristol Palin, she had given birth to daughter Sailor Grace in December, given the baby girl the surname “Palin,” and gotten a custodial petition from her former fiancé Dakota Meyer. Bristol had never confirmed one way or the other that Sailor was Dakota’s kid. I always thought that she was so squirrelly about that detail because she honestly didn’t know the paternity, and she was waiting for the whole mess to blow up. Well, Dakota wasn’t going to wait – he apparently filed paperwork for a paternity test to be done on Sailor AND he wanted joint custody AND he wanted Dakota to pay him child support. As you can imagine, that did not go over well in the Palin household. But they had to comply with part of it, and so now it looks like… Dakota was the dad this whole time. So why all the drama again?
Bristol Palin has conceded that her ex-fiance Dakota Meyer is the father of Sailor Grace, Daily Mail Online has learned exclusively. Meyer was forced to take a paternity test in what was gearing up to be an increasingly bitter custody battle over Bristol’s new baby. Court documents seen by Daily Mail Online reveal that Bristol admits that she was engaged to Meyer and that paternity was established via DNA testing at 99.9957 percent certainty.
Meyer’s bid for joint custody in a suit filed in Kentucky and Alaska was stalled pending the results of the paternity test. But Bristol contends that because Meyer lives in Kentucky and she lives in Alaska, shared physical custody may not be ‘practicable’ and agrees to a ‘decree of shared legal custody except that, due to geographic distance, in the event of a dispute, Palin shall have final say.’
Bristol asks that she receive ‘a decree for primary physical custody’, with visitation adjusted consistent with the child’s age and Meyer’s out-of-state residence. She also asks for interim and permanent child support and that Meyer pay Sailor Grace’s delivery and medical expenses.
Meyer’s family have told Daily Mail Online they were ‘hurt’ over the doubt that has been cast and insisted that Meyer ‘has a right to that child’, whose birth Palin announced on December 24. Speaking from the family home in Greensburg, Kentucky, Meyer’s grandmother, Jean, 85, said: ‘It happens every day that a mother tries to keep a child from the father and you just have to deal with it. But I would say it does hurt [to have to prove paternity]. But that’s just the way the law is – you have to get permission here and permission there. I really think Dakota will do the right thing and I think he has a right to that child.’
So, that answers some questions… and leaves me scratching my head about this drama all over again. I seriously don’t understand what happened between Dakota and Bristol initially, when she first got knocked up and then broke off their engagement and canceled their wedding. Did she cheat? Was there some doubt as to the paternity? Or was there something else involved? And if she knew Dakota was the father this whole time, why didn’t she ask him for financial support earlier? What is with this family?!?
PS… Dakota also went against the Palins by endorsing Canadian Ted Cruz instead of the Palins’ presidential pick, Donald Trump.
Photos courtesy of Bristol’s Instagram.
Bristol Palin Just Got the Results of Her Paternity Test Back and Now She Wants Dakota’s Money.
Fixed it for ya.
Was going to say something similar. Sounds like she’s looking for a pay day.
yeah, this.
the drama, I’m sure, was because she was NOT sure of who the father was.
cute baby…too bad she’s got such a turd for a mother.
Is she also getting money from Baby Daddy #1. Wonder who Sucker #3 will be.
She didn’t know initially. Now, there is confirmation and she will need cash because the abstinence hustle is done.
I’m thinking there are plenty of stupid right-wingers about who are jumping at the chance to be connected to the Palins somehow and will trip over themselves trying to offer Bristol a job as their spokeswoman, even as an ‘abstinence ambassador’ again.
There’s no end of crazy, far-right loonies with more cash than they can spend sensibly.
Word. Thems ain’t God’s babies! The Virgin Bristol clearly is no more.
-TheRealPinky
Smh, the amount of trouble this girl could save herself if she just did one unselfish thing in her life and actually tried to work and not cling to someone to be her People Magazine spouse.
#Word, EternalSideEye. I often wonder how grifters find the energy.
Satan’s spawn carries little responsibility for her actions,but that shouldn’t be a surprise,look who raised her. Total trash.
If there was a nuclear Armageddon there would be cockroaches, Twinkies and the Palin’s. Total bottom feeders.
Cute baby. But what a mess. Anyone need an abstinence spokesperson? I’m sure Bristol’s up for the job…
She’s the worst. So she’s been denying this child her father this whole time? I’m confused. And how come they can’t have shared custody? Just because he lives in another state? He wants to step up and be a father I’m sure any normal human being would want that from their ex. And let’s face it, look at the history of the Palins and how they were raised. He has every good reason to want to share custody.
My guess is that the denial was floated in case it wasn’t his. To go from engaged to acrimoniously unengaged & then a pregnancy announcement suggests that she was likely hopping into bed/back of car/whatever with someone on the side, & he found out.
I’m also confused. What does the birth certificate say? Because if she left it blank and was only sleeping with one man, then she is a bigger witch than I thought. So either she is a cheating scumbag or she is a scheming bitch, pick one.
“So either she is a cheating scumbag or she is a scheming bitch, pick one.”
or both.
All of the above.
All that’s missing is the rousing chorus of “oh HELL no”s and “ooooooohs” from a Maury episode.
Yup but I have a little empathy chip only because she IS Palin’s daughter. That can’t be easy.
I’m sure she really didn’t know who the father was. Prime suspects are randoms in Las Vegas, I think that’s where she was in a timeframe that would explain why she adjusted the date of birth (which she did…), to make it more reasonable that it wasn’t someone from that trip. Not sure why she didn’t just have a blood test herself during the pregnancy, there is enough fetal DNA in the mother’s bloodstream to pick it up for paternity testing. But maybe she was just hoping that the whole problem would go away and Dakota would vanish. Once again, she has miscalculated the interest of a father in his child.
Since she is stuck sharing the baby with the father, now she wants to receive money from him rather than the other way around. A judge will sort out the fair solution, hopefully taking into account the fact that he’s going to have to travel frequently to Alaska for the next few years. Bristol has a habit of making visitation difficult. She doesn’t like to share, and thinks she has the right to kick the daddy to the curb whenever she wants.
Who knows. Maybe he cheated on her and she was pissed and wanted to cut off all contact with him. Everything ended so abruptly I imagine there was some drama involved.
If he cheated on her, she and mama would be screaming that to the world. The fact that they are so silent strongly suggests to me that it was her fault. This is the woman who blamed the president for her son beating on a woman.
Yes you are absolutely right. There is no way Dakota is in the wrong-just as you said-they would have screamed it to the world the moment it happened. It must have been Bristol.
Josephine, you’re absolutely right. If anyone was cheating, it was Bristol. Otherwise, she’d be smearing Dakota in the media. Her unwillingness to name the father until a paternity test was done is very telling, since she knew it would have to be revealed at some point.
Exactly.
Remember when Sarah tried to turn the failed wedding reception into a party? If he had cheated on her daughter, she would have tried to hang him out to dry.
Josephine, totally, agreed.
I’m going out on a limb, based on subsequent behaviour of all parties, there was an overlap with someone other than Dakota.
Palin didn’t know for sure who the father was, and that’s why she didn’t request child support until DNA could gave her infallible proof.
Oops! Just posted similarly. Should have scrolled first, sorry!
That’s exactly what I think happened. She was messing around with someone else at the same time, he found out, wedding called off, paternity test required.
Whoever the other guy is probably just breathed a sigh of relief.
No, now she knows because the DNA test confirmed it, and now she wants him to pay her (although honestly, this is one of those visual DNA test situations – Sailor looks like him, you can tell). Once paternity is conclusively established, he can now move to get his name placed on the birth certificate and he can ask the court to change her last name. ETA: And why is she asking for her delivery costs? Bristol is employed – does her employer not cover her insurance? If she works, she should have insurance to cover maternity costs. She’s also under 26, which would mean that she could still possibly be on her parents’ insurance. Why claim medical expenses that were likely covered in the first place?
And what of the Palins and their alleged love for the veterans? Now they know that a medal of honor winner is their granddaughter’s father, shouldn’t they be shouting that from the rooftops? But I guess not, since he’s not in lock step with the family, he’s just garbage. Unlike their esteemed brother, who just dabbles in domestic violence and unauthorized gunplay.
I’m also confused about healthcare costs. Todd Palin has native heritage, and receives free healthcare along with other entitlements.
She probably just wants some extra cash. Why not try to nail baby-daddy for it? Scamming seems to be the Palin middle name.
@Sam, no unfortunately not all insurance plans cover maternity and delivery costs. Many require out-of-pocket coverage. Even ones offered through major employers. It’s a strange thing, I agree, because I think a lot of people assume they would be covered. Bills are sent home shortly after delivery.
As far as Palin goes….I want her and the rest of them to go away forever. Yuck. This poor baby.
The ACA mandated basic maternity coverage for all plans. Thanks, Obama, for covering perhaps the one person who will never fully appreciate it.
Many ACA plans have exorbitant deductible and co pays…this one likely has very good insurance though.
Look–these are all VALID arguments. The problem with that is that nothing involving the Palins is valid or sensible. EVER. They’re money and fame grubbing leeches who make it all up as they go along
Depends how she’s covered. If she’s covered as a dependent on Sarah Palin’s insurance a lot of insurance doesn’t cover pregnancy and delivery for dependent daughters. Nor will they cover the baby once s/he is born.
That being said, I can’t believe she didn’t have her own insurance.
That’s because dependent daughters practice ABSTINENCE don’t ya know.
There is probably at least one young man out there who is now breathing a sigh of relief.
She didn’t know who it was until the tests came back. That’s the only thing that makes sense of their behavior. Bet she wishes she’d gone through with the wedding now.
eh, I’m not sure that she COULD have gone through with the wedding. That is, I don’t think she was the one who called it off.
I think that, when she found out she was pregnant, she told Meyer she wasn’t sure of paternity and HE broke it off. If HE had done something wrong, you know that the Palin family would be making sure that EVERYONE knew HE screwed up and that SHE dumped HIM.
I’m really curious why she would have told him she wasn’t sure before she had a ring on her finger. I can only think that there must have been some reason why it wasn’t feasible to just let Meyer think it was his kid.
I feel bad for the kids, to be honest.
Quite, look well if he tries the “she isn’t a fit parent” route because she already had one and didn’t know if I was the father, suggesting promiscuity. Noe I am not saying that for one minute but he might try it.
I think this is what happened:
1) Once Bristol found out she was pregnant before the wedding, she figured she doesn’t need a husband anymore and wanted to be a single mom without much interference from the father ala Kelly Rutherford.
1a) So she didn’t want to confirm paternity until she was forced to by the court and she thought that by flying back to Alaska, it’ll be harder for Dakota to get any kind of custody and would limit any co-parenting ‘interference’ from Dakota beyond occasional visitations.
1b) She also realized that if Dakota went ahead and filed for paternity, she’d be able to get him to pay for all sorts of things, like the examples mentioned in the article above. So Win-Win for her.
Basically, this me-only thing was what it seems to me she did with the first kid and the father, Levi.
I dunno about #1 anne_000. It seems like being married and having a kid with a MOH recipient would be too good a gig to pass up. I feel like she’s the type who would use it as an ivory tower to shake her finger at the rest of us.
I don’t think she broke off the engagement to be a single mom (again). I think she was caught fooling around and he broke it off. Shortly after the breakup she found out she was pregnant, so she fled back to Alaska to hide from the “librul media”. If the kid wasn’t Dakota’s, she’s with her family. If the kid was Dakota’s, she’s far enough away that he couldn’t be part of the child’s life and she could play victim. She seems like the type of narcissist who would try to punish someone who “wronged” her, irrespective of what’s best for the child.
That’s my theory. *adjusts tin foil hat*
Count me with those who think she really was not sure he was the father until the test results.
Every time I see her son, I think of that mom swap show with Joan and Melissa. He behaved so badly (with his clueless mother and aunt standing by) that I could not watch the entire show. He needed serious discipline and lessons in respecting others. I realize a lot of ‘reality shows’ are fake, but I believe his behavior was real (and concerning).
That episode showed a child out of control and Bristol as a mother who simply was too lazy to make an effort. It also revealed Melissa Rivers to be a good sport (moose liver!) and a caring person. She tried to put some necessary structure in that child’s life and she got Willow a job, a good job! Bristol just sat around Joan’s house whining about people picking on her family, when they weren’t, passing judgment on Melissa for working, and refusing to work herself. And Willow declined the really good job Melissa got her.
I was also impressed by Melissa. She gave that boy much needed structure and discipline and he responded to it. It showed lazy parenting and entitlement on Willows part. I’m guessing that Bristol learned that from her mother.
What were those rumors about her and Ben Affleck?
This might be a stupid question (sorry), but i’m not American so I don’t know all that much about your politics. You say “Canadian Ted Cruz” don’t you have to be American to run for presidency? Does he have dual citizenship or something?
Ted was born in Calgary, Alberta, to an American mother, making him an automatic American citizen (although best believe that if he was a Democrat, the Republicans would be disputing this from here until the cows come home). His father was born in Cuba, but was a Canadian citizen at the time of Ted’s birth (he became a naturalized American citizen in 2005).
Okay, I see. Thank you for the explanation 🙂
It’s a little murky. Our constitution requires the POTUS to be a “natural-born citizen”, which isn’t completely defined. Some say Cruz’s mother had renounced her American citizenship before he was born, which would leave his qualification unclear. The problem is, this requirement has never been challenged in court, and the court won’t rule until someone files suit. In the meantime, the Secretary of State in each state can challenge Cruz’s right to be on an election ballot.
I know! How they can sit quietly over this when they were screaming about Obama’s birth certificate — when *his* mother was also an American citizen — is beyond me.
@bluhare: Cruz, himself, stated that anyone not born on US territory is not considered a natural born citizen just by virtue of the US citizenship of their mother, Back in 2012 Cruz said:
“Obama’s mother’s citizenship is irrelevant since his father wasn’t American and he wasn’t born in America. He can’t be President”
Cruz’s father was not American and Cruz was born in Canada. Cruz was wrong about Obama’s standing as a natural born citizen because Obama was born in Hawaii, which was a US state at the time of Obama’s birth, so it didn’t matter whether either of his parents were US citizens.
Based on Cruz’s own statements, Cruz is not a “natural born” US citizen who is eligible to be President. To add to the confusion, there are reports that Cruz’s mother was registered to vote in Canada
” How they can sit quietly over this when they were screaming about Obama’s birth certificate — when *his* mother was also an American citizen — is beyond me.”
AND he was actually born in the US. but, to answer your question…it’s not beyond me…it’s because his skin is brown.
It was just a gratuitous shot at Ted Cruz.
She knows how to make babies, this is clear. The fact she didn’t know who the father was is pathetic. Had fate been on her mommy’s side, she would be living in D.C. and possibly the White House at some point. Thank God Obama beat McCain. She needs to get a job and get off of her back for a minute and make something out of her life, other than being a punchline. She has time, hope she uses it wisely.
Yes, thank God Obama beat McCain so Bristol Palin wouldn’t be living in D.C.!
The paternity was in question until the test results. Who knows what happened between them. Dakota couldn’t distance himself far enough away from her during the pregnancy, so he must have doubted he was the father.
Didn’t he get ‘busted’ for being married before, or not being divorced, and not disclosing that to her, something?
So she called it off?
They’re both idiots, IMO.
He was already divorced.
This girl needs to think about why & how her life now mirrors a Maury Povich show.
Seriously. But she’ll just blame Obama and the liberal media.
These violent douches would be more at home on Jerry Springer. They’d fit right in. Plus, Jerry used to be the governor of Cincinnati, that’s practically royalty to the grasping, grifting, Palins.
GO AWAY. This whole family is such a mess, GO AWAY you all.
Revolting. Why is her face turning into Kim K’s? Same plastic surgeon, I guess. In her case plastic sturgeon, cause that is what she is starting to look like. What a gross clan of fools. Isn’t there some drunken snowmobile/right wing rally she should be at? Good luck to that kid.
Women like her make me so mad!!! I have a cousin like her. She actually is pushing for her baby-daddy to be unable to have their son (age ten) around his wife and infant daughter. Like literally – he isn’t allowed to have contact w his step mom or sister???
This dad wants to step up, and she’s all $$$
I agree with those who say that she was messing around on him, and wasn’t sure who the baby’s father was. What a hypocrite she is. Those poor children.
I don’t think she’s actually attracted to men. She wants babies and a family, but a man is just a tool for her to get those things and still get approval (and $$$) from her parents.
I have a friend from college who is a lesbian, but did have sex with men to conceive her 2 kids, so it’s possible.
Oh, I think Bristol is an accidental mother. None of her kids were planned and she doesn’t seem to work too hard at the after-the-birth part of it, judging from the behavior of the baby’s older brother.