I advise you contact your local MP and protest this ridiculous law!

This must be absolutely devastating for Mark, as well as the children concerned in this case. I think that it is more about getting some sort of justice and revenge against the ex-wife rather than financial gain. His wife and her lover knowingly deceived Mark for 17 years.

Mark now plans to take this case to Europe. We wish him luck.

Pasqualino Cornelio, who believed he fathered the 16-year-old twins after being given “incomplete and misleading information” by his ex-wife, will also not be reimbursed for previous child support payments.

“While the failure of (Anciolina) Cornelio to disclose to her husband the fact that she had an extramarital affair and that the twins might not be his biological children may well have been a moral wrong against Mr. Cornelio, it is a wrong that does not afford him a legal remedy to recover child support he has already paid, and that does not permit him to stop paying child support,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Katherine van Rensburg wrote in her decision.

The mother claimed to have conveniently forgot that she had an affair!

His lawyer plans to appeal the sentence the 4 to 23 month prison term imposed by Cumberland County President Judge Edgar Bayley.

Now doesn’t that strike you as odd, that a woman can lie about the parentage of her child and get away with it, but the moment a man does it, he’s seen as some sort of dead beat dad and sent to prison!

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?

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!!!

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!

Growth of paternity tests sires tricky societal issues

By Kathryn Masterson
Special to the Tribune
Published March 18, 2007

Paul Simpson had reason to suspect that he wasn’t going to like the results even before he took a paternity test. Another man, whom Simpson had become friendly with, had confessed to him that he, not Simpson, was the father of the two children born during Simpson’s marriage.

Still, Simpson said he hoped that at least one of the children, who were both under the age of 2, would turn out to be his biological child. The professionally administered DNA test showed neither was.
“It’s hard to describe how bad I felt,” said Simpson, 25, who is now divorced from the children’s mother. He was angry, then severely depressed. But he did not regret taking the test. “I had to know if they were mine–I had to.”

DNA tests to prove parentage are becoming more common and easily accessible. You can order a do-it-yourself kit online for about $200, though those tests aren’t admissible in court, or pay $500 for one involving professional sample collections.

Continued here..

Interesting article on the Chicago Tribune, about paternity fraud and another duped dad!

Lawyers urge ‘no fault’ divorces
A couple getting married
The present divorce system breeds acrimony, some lawyers say
The family law system needs a radical overhaul to include “no fault” divorces, a lawyers’ group has said.

Resolution, which represents about 5,000 family lawyers, says the present system creates a “blame culture”.

Group chairman Jane McCulloch said it was wrong that “unreasonable behaviour” or adultery had to be proved to obtain an immediate divorce.

There were 141,750 divorces in England and Wales in 2005, 10,940 in Scotland and 2,362 in Northern Ireland.

Ms McCulloch was speaking at the national conference of Resolution, formerly known as the Solicitors Family Law Association, in Manchester.

Divorce graph

She said: “Under current law, anyone wanting an immediate divorce has to prove ‘unreasonable behaviour’ or adultery on the part of their husband or wife.

“This ‘blame culture’ of unreasonable behaviour introduces a degree of discord and unpleasantness into divorce proceedings from their very inception.”

She said Resolution supported provisions in the 1996 Family Law Act for “no-fault” divorces, which were later shelved.

Pre-nuptial agreements

“If the government is serious about promoting amicable settlements through mediation and streamlined courts, it should commit to undertaking a thorough review of family law to deal with these issues,” she said.

Such a review could bring family law up to date by addressing issues such as the rights of couples who live together and the position of pre-nuptial agreements, she added.

Last year Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Wall called for an end to fault-based divorces to help prevent acrimonious break-ups.

He said he wanted a new system which put the needs of children and financial provision at the heart of the divorce process.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6437799.stm

Are they off their rockers!!! This is another case of these greedy lawyers making it easier for your wife to kick you out on a whim… and keep your kids and house.

London, Mar 17: Singer Mel B a.k.a Scary Spice was reportedly seen helping a stripper get his trouser off at her lavish baby bash, where she treated guests with a cake shaped liked a baby bump covered with an ‘edible leopard design cloth’.

The former Spice Girl threw her party at a function room in Beverly Hills Hotel.

The English pop singer, who claimed to be pregnant with actor Eddie Murphy’s child, also guzzled champagne and coped with the steps of the performer.

Meanwhile, Murphy has asked Scary Spice to prove her claim through a paternity test.

The comedian’s current girlfriend Tracey Edmonds maintained that the two were in a brief liaison before she started dating Murphy, and that the issue has to be sorted between the two.

“They had a quick relationship before I got together with Eddie. So that’s their business,” The Sun quoted Edmonds, as saying.

Edmonds added that if Murphy turns out to be the father, he would have to take responsibility of the baby.”There’ll be a paternity test and if it’s his then he’ll be responsible,” she added.

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