A decision made after the divorce
After officially divorcing his wife, the man sought a non-paternity order and removed her name from the twins’ birth certificate. A decision that the mother took a dim view of. According to her, her ex-husband was trying to avoid any obligation to pay alimony, while the man said he wanted to “defend his honour”, as relayed by our colleagues at the Daily Mail.
The man and his ex-wife adopted children after they got married. He then underwent a vasectomy about 12 years before the twin girls were born. He therefore believes that he is not the biological father of the twins, who are now teenagers. Especially since before the woman became pregnant, the couple had threesome sex with another man, suspected to be the girls’ biological father. According to the mother, this relationship with another man was supposed to help her get pregnant. Her ex-husband denied this in court. He said he did not want any more children and was appalled by the news of the pregnancy.
A questionable relationship and controversial statements
According to Justice Traicee McKenzie, it does not matter whether the threesome’s relationship was simply driven by pleasure or was for the purpose of conceiving a child, because both parties knew what they were doing at the time of the sexual encounter. There was an arrangement between the two. The husband later told the NZ Herald newspaper that he had “barely participated” in the trio and had mostly “just watched.”
It was only after the separation that the request for disavowal was made, especially since the relationship between the man and his ex-wife had deteriorated. However, the mother claimed that her ex-husband was very involved in the twins’ lives. He would take them on vacations and buy them gifts. The twins even called him “Daddy.” The man knew he was not the father of the twins, but they had his last name. His name was on their birth certificates. On top of that, in his 2020 will, the man included the twins as discretionary beneficiaries and had designated them as his children.
The man denied the mother’s allegations. In his defence, he argued that he had only once spent a holiday with the girls and that he cut ties with them as soon as the couple separated. He also said that he never bought them gifts and that the twins called him by his first name.
The court ruled in favor of the ex-husband’s claim
Caption: The man’s name will be removed from the twins’ birth certificates. Source: spm
The situation that the separated couple was going through did not seem to help anyone, since the mother, despite her allegations, asked the judge to take into consideration the father’s motives for seeking a non-paternity order after so many years. In her ruling, Judge McKenzie said the man did not seek to contact the twins after they separated and that neither of them tried to contact him. There was no bond of affection and love between the man and the twins.
The court then found that the twins were not the man’s biological daughters and granted a non-paternity order in his favour. The man’s name will then be removed from the twins’ birth certificates.
Triolism and trouple in France
According to a poll conducted by Ifop and relayed by the magazine Femme Actuelle, 15% of French people have tried threesomes or threesomes and nearly half of the inhabitants of France have had sex without a future.
The trouple, on the other hand, is a contraction of the terms “trio” and “couple”. In France, three-person households are discriminated against by law, i.e. they do not benefit from any legal framework. That said, the trouples cannot benefit from certain benefits granted to couples, such as access to social protection, among others.
