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An unidentified UK businesswoman visited a IVF clinic in 2002, with her then-husband. A few months later, there was no pregnancy and the marriage was in trouble because the husband - a university professor - didn't want to go back to the clinic and had asked his wife to sign a 'disclaimer' saying he wouldn't have the normal financial responsibility for any child they had together.
So the wife went back to the clinic a few months later with an ex-boyfriend, and gave birth to his baby boy. She didn't tell her husband though, and, despite his disclaimer, he continued to pay maintenance and care for him until the boy was five (she and husband split when the child was six months old), when they got into a custody dispute. At this point, the wife told him the child wasn't his.
The child is now nine and the husband was refused contact with him in a separate court case.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3003998/Man-wins-baby-deceit-damages-bid.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31981961
So the wife went back to the clinic a few months later with an ex-boyfriend, and gave birth to his baby boy. She didn't tell her husband though, and, despite his disclaimer, he continued to pay maintenance and care for him until the boy was five (she and husband split when the child was six months old), when they got into a custody dispute. At this point, the wife told him the child wasn't his.
The child is now nine and the husband was refused contact with him in a separate court case.
He was today awarded £40,000 in damages at the Central London County Court, while his wife was also ordered to cover his legal costs, believed to be around £60,000.
It also emerged that the husband had earlier agreed to drop the case for a comparatively moderate payout of £12,500.*
After the hearing the man revealed that, despite years of caring for the boy, he has now lost almost all contact with him.*
He said: 'I have sometimes felt, "I think I am in the wrong film". I can't imagine what my then-son must have felt to have had a loving father substituted by another man.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3003998/Man-wins-baby-deceit-damages-bid.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31981961