The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Thursday upheld an order of a Family Court which directed the petitioner to pay maintenance to his alleged son. The child's mother had also deposed that the child was born out of her physical relationship with the petitioner, who once had kept her as his 'mistress'.

While dismissing the revision petition, a Single Judge Bench of Justice Satyen Vaidya observed,

"The statement of mother of the respondent regarding the paternity of respondent cannot be brushed aside easily. It is hard to believe that a female would name any unknown person to be the father of her son. Contest by petitioner to the prayer for DNA test strengthens the claim of the respondent."

Background

The respondent sought maintenance from the petitioner claiming himself to be his son. He alleged that he was born out of relationship that once existed between the petitioner and his mother. The mother of the respondent also deposed that she had fallen in love with the petitioner, who had kept her as a mistress. She further stated, on oath, that the petitioner had maintained physical relation with her, as a result of which she conceived and ultimately delivered a baby boy i.e. the respondent.

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Hope for 14 Belgian adopted children from South Korea in search of identity: "The stories are harrowing"

She was nine months old when she was adopted as a Korean by a couple from Deurne, but it was only sixteen years ago that Yung Fierens (46) discovered the fraud in her file. She is far from alone: ??a special committee in South Korea will examine adoption fraud among more than 350 adoptees, including 14 Belgians. “They will finally know who their birth parents are.”

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Following a Telegraph investigation, authorities are to examine claims of deception around many of the babies’ true identities

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Nicola Smith,

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Sarah Newey,

Todd and Julie Chrisley hit back at biological mom of adopted daughter, Chloe, 10, after she said she wants custody back amid their legal troubles

Todd and Julie Chrisley have spoken out after the biological mother of their adopted daughter, Chloe, 10, announced her plans to regain custody following their recent prison sentencing for tax evasion and bank fraud.

The couple, best known to television audiences for their USA Network reality show "Chrisley Knows Best," were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison on fraud convictions in November.

Shortly after, their eldest daughter together, Savannah Chrisley, shared that she had been granted custody of both her niece, Chloe, and her 16-year-old brother, Grayson.

However, earlier this week Chloe's biological mother Angela Johnson announced that she is seeking to regain full custody of the pre-teen. Johnson told TMZ she has yet to file any official paperwork but said she hopes to "go back to court and get Chloe back home," per ET Online.

Vanessa Emerson and Jonessa Dobbs were put up for adoption shortly after their birth in 1985. Years later, they learned they had a triplet.

INDIANAPOLIS — Vanessa Emerson and Jonessa Dobbs were born in South Korea in 1985 and put up for adoption shortly after.

"What we believe is our parents were young, unmarried and in Korea, especially at that time, you don’t have kids when you’re unmarried," said Dobbs. "That’s just a no-no, so a lot of moms end up giving their kids up for adoption."

They were taken in by a family in Michigan and the two grew up just outside Detroit.

"We always knew we were adopted," said Dobbs.

SP Member of Parliament Michiel van Nispen has tabled a motion in which he calls on Minister Franc Weerwind (Legal Protection) to refrain from appealing in the case of the illegal adoption of Patrick Noordoven and the adoption of Dilani Butink. Van Nispen also filed a motion to reimburse costs incurred by the adoptees as a result of the State's decision to continue litigation.

Van Nispen previously addressed the minister in response to an episode of Het Onderzoeksbureau . In it, children's and human rights organizations also called for the appeal to be withdrawn. In the WNL podcast, Noordoven tells how he won his lawsuit against the State at the end of 2021, which then decided to appeal.

Patrick was taken from Brazil in 1980 with the help of a Dutch diplomat by a Dutch couple. Because his legal parents had registered him as their own child, information about his biological parents was missing. Patrick, like 41 other children, turned out to be illegally adopted from Brazil. Dutch diplomats were also involved in those adoptions.

Butink was adopted from Sri Lanka in 1992 and could not find out who her biological parents are due to abuses. It is not the first time that the State has challenged a judge's verdict: the same thing happened in the case of Patrick Noordoven in February 2022.

Stress and high costs

Denmark’s outright ban on adoption in the context of a commercial surrogacy agreement violated the rights of two children born to a surrogate mother, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

The court found by 4–3 that there had been a violation of Article 8 as regards the right to respect for the private lives of the two applicant children, though also held unanimously that there had been no violation of the intended mother’s rights.

Background

The applicants, K.K., C1 and C2, are Danish nationals who were born in 1967, 2013 and 2013 respectively and live in Copenhagen. K.K. is the mother of the other two applicants, who are twins.

In December 2013 a surrogate mother in Ukraine gave birth to C1 and C2 following a surrogacy agreement with the intended parents of the children, K.K. and her husband, who was the biological father. The birth certificates registered K.K. and her husband as the parents. In February 2014 the children were brought to Denmark.

Aditi Tandon

New Delhi, December 6

Foster families will no longer have to wait for five years to adopt a child. The process will now take two years, thanks to a Centre’s decision to ease adoption rules for foster families.

Rules amended

District magistrates start issuing adoption orders under amended Juvenile Justice Rules, 2022

The second part of an investigation into global adoption examines the possible abduction and selling of thousands of Georgian babies

On a cold December day in 1990, Irma Dvalishvili gave birth to twin girls in the maternity hospital in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Irma vividly recalls the doctor telling her that both girls were healthy, but the following day the family learned that one of the twins had died.

Different doctors cited different reasons. The hospital initially refused to give the body to the family, but after much pleading a wrapped infant was eventually handed over. Yet no-one checked the baby’s identity.

At the time, the family did not imagine they would ever come to ask whether their child was, in fact, still alive.

Now, 32 years later, Mariam Kobelashvili is searching with unwavering conviction for her twin sister. “If you have ever come across someone who looks like me, I am asking you from the bottom of my heart, please, get in touch,” Mariam said in a recent post on a Facebook group dedicated to reuniting Georgians with children suspected to have been snatched at birth.