Topeka ? The wife of a soldier on his third tour in Iraq told a Senate committee Wednesday that Kansas law is unfair to her family because her husband has been ordered to pay support for a child who isn’t his.

During a hearing on the bill, Karey Sprowson testified that her husband, Master Sgt. Christopher Sprowson, previously was married to a woman who in 1995 had a child by another man. Sprowson is assigned to Fort Riley and his current wife lives in nearby Wakefield.

Karey Sprowson said her husband was ordered in 2008 by a Lyon County district judge to pay child support because the law says he’s the presumed father, even though genetic tests he took on his own in 2000 proved he wasn’t. Christopher Sprowson divorced the woman two years after the child was born, and Karey Sprowson said he has no relationship with the 14-year-old child.

“Every child has a right to be supported, but not at the cost of another family,” said the mother of three children, ages 10, 4 and 14 months.

Karey Sprowson testified during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a bill that would allow a man presumed to be the father of a child to request a blood or DNA test from a court without a judge having to consider the child’s best interest. A court then could consider those results.

The committee took no action on the bill, which would apply only to children under age 18 as of July 1.

Sprowson said her husband owes $4,000 in back child support. The Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services wants him to pay up, she said, although the agency hasn’t started collecting the money from his paycheck.