Nevada Senators to combat paternity fraud!

This is the most twisted and one-sided use of the law I have ever seen. Are these guys blind or what!

A panel of Nevada senators grappled Friday with two bills to change family law in Nevada – one to ensure family members of a divorcing couple can attend divorce hearings, and another to fight paternity fraud.

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The committee also heard testimony on AB117, which would create the misdemeanor crime of “paternity fraud,” typically where a man sends a friend or other impostor to take a required DNA test to determine who the father of a child is. Test-evading fathers and their impostor assistants can’t be charged under current law, although they can be held in contempt of court.

“We look forward to the day when we can post very visible signs that warn would-be impostors and those who would recruit them that the fraud they intend to commit is not only morally reprehensible but can land them in jail,” said Ed Ewert, a Clark County deputy district attorney who works in family law.

Ewert estimated the impostor cases make up only 1 to 2 percent of DNA testing cases. But a man who gets away with it can escape paying tens of thousands of dollars over a child’s lifetime, he said.

The crime would carry a penalty of up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Ewert suggested lawmakers amend the bill to make the crime a gross misdemeanor, which would double the allowable fines and jail terms.

Judiciary Chairman Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said the committee might consider even stiffer penalties.

“If you’re trying to defraud someone out of $6,000 a year for about 20 years, that would be felony range if I stole it,” said Amodei.

No one spoke in opposition to either bill on Friday. The Assembly voted unanimously in favor of both bills last week.

Are they crazy, no mention of the poor guys who end up out of pocket for 20 years because they are told the children are theirs. What about locking up the woman?

Woman loses final embryo appeal

A woman left infertile after cancer therapy has lost her fight to use embryos fertilised by an ex-partner.

Natallie Evans, from Trowbridge, Wilts, and Howard Johnston began IVF treatment in 2001 but he withdrew consent for the embryos to be used after they split up.

She turned to the European courts after exhausting the UK legal process.

Ms Evans, 35, said she was “distraught” after the Grand Chamber of the European Court ruling, but Mr Johnston said “common sense had prevailed.”

Source BBC

I agree, common sense in the courts at last…

Though not everyone would think so….

In giving Howard Evans the right to change his mind after the point of conception the courts have afforded him rights not available to most men. How is that just?
This decision is wrong, wrong,wrong!

Gemma, Leighton Buzzard

Can you believe this crap. This heffer is complaining that this man has given as much rights as a woman.. How disgraceful!!!

Duped Dad wins £22,000

A Stockbroker who sued his former girlfriend who wrongly claimed he was the father of her son won £22.4k. He has originally sued her for £100k after finding out the child was not his when the boy was 5 after having a DNA test.

Although this is a step in the right direction, the judge still dismissed his claims of £37,000 that he had paid out for nursery fees.

The mother still claims that she had no reason to believe the child was not is, and had not deliberately duped the dad. The judge concluded that it would be impossible to accept this woman as a witness of truth.

Well ain’t that the truth.

While this is definitely progress, being the 1st case of its kind. It still does not fully compensate the duped dad enough since he was deemed to have got ‘great enjoyment’ from his relationship with the child.

Lock the heffer up I say!