IVF paternity fraud father: make DNA tests routine in child maintenance cases

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'A father at the centre of Britain’s first known case of paternity fraud involving IVF has called for the introduction of routine DNA testing in divorce after he was tricked into raising another man’s child as his own for six years.

The man, whose identity cannot be published for legal reasons, is also calling for an overhaul of the law after a judge ruled that his ex-wife could not be forced to hand back tens of thousands of pounds in maintenance payments even though they were the result of “fraud”.

He is urging MPs to consider new legislation to recognise paternity deceit as a crime rather than a civil wrong in cases involving premeditation and large amounts of money or serious emotional damage to children or parents.

The man, a lecturer and businessman based in southern England, was cheated by his ex-wife, a successful businesswoman, into believing that the baby she conceived through fertility treatment at a clinic in Spain was his child.'