Paternity

Tel Aviv Family Court certainly recognised that this situation is favourable to the  lover and unfavourable to the husband, in  a paternity case a few years ago, referring to it as an ‘insurance policy’ for a man having sex with a married woman, where both of of them, and the husband were Jewish.

Yes. While the court has discretion regarding costs it is likely that in a paternity case where the biological father could be one of many men , the court may well order the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s costs where genetic testing has proved that he cannot be the child’s parent. This was so in a Kfar Saba family court case in May 2002 where the plaintiff worked as a call girl with a sizeable clientele of men with whom she had sex with for money. The defendant was a married man. Two paternity tests proved that he could not be the child’s biological father. The court rejected the plaintiff’s plea for a declaratory judgment declaring him to be the father and ordering him to support the child, ordering her to pay his costs. It held that the costs order was designed to prevent the defendant, who won the case, losing out financially – but it was not designed to compensate him for the emotional suffering and humiliation he says he endured.