FAMILY LAW: Paternity fraud penalises the innocent*

Businessmen who are caught committing corporate fraud or insider trading are exposed and punished – with fines, jail or both – and rightly so. However, women who commit paternity fraud, i.e. deceive their husbands about the paternity of “their” children, appear to get away with it and seem to have the Victorian Women’s Legal Service and the Child Support Agency on their side, reports Babette Francis.Paternity fraud not only involves infidelity, but also deception at a most fundamental level of t…

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