[Rytwyng]

A FRENCHMAN has won a ground-breaking ruling against his former wife and her lover, ordering them to pay back the money that he had spent on bringing up a child he had mistakenly assumed to be his own.

I never thought I'd say this, but: Vive le France!

[llama hunter]

actually it is a lousy ruling

was he any less her father because he wasn't the biological father, if you adopt a child are you any less the father of that child, no

I don't think so

sure the mother wasn't forthcoming

but by punishing the mother here you are in effect punishing the child

that is not good law....

unless perhaps the mother is rich.....but what message is that telling this child, you are not my biological daughter so our whole relationship was a fraud and you weren't worth a penny, I didn't mean any of those gifts I gave you etc, nice way to mess with a kid's head.......well in that case that man doesn't deserve to be in the child's life, big selfish A-hole

although I suppose it will make ho's think twice

but issues of child support are supposed to take the child's best interests as the top priority not the parents