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Post by sesley on Jun 27, 2011 15:51:29 GMT
www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/till-death-do-us-part-1.1088651how does that work then,he can't say the vows back or say no. and what happens if she wants a divorce. and does a mother in law come with him? it must have been a very quiet wedding with no drunken exploits from the groom and his relatives.
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Post by everso on Jun 27, 2011 16:38:09 GMT
www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/till-death-do-us-part-1.1088651how does that work then,he can't say the vows back or say no. and what happens if she wants a divorce. and does a mother in law come with him? it must have been a very quiet wedding with no drunken exploits from the groom and his relatives. Very strange business. I'm sure money must be at the bottom of it. eversosuspicious |
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Post by housesparrow on Jun 27, 2011 19:43:38 GMT
Dunno - perhaps it is to give their child some kind of status he would not otherwise have? All most baffling, for I know nothing of French law.
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Post by alanseago on Jun 27, 2011 20:32:49 GMT
This depends if he had officially 'recognised' the child as his or not. If not, this is the only way to make the child legally legitimate.
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Post by housesparrow on Jun 28, 2011 8:20:53 GMT
I'm not sure marriage would do that in Britain; what little knowledge I had of family law has long since rusted away.
If an (unmarried to the mother) man's name is on the birth certificate he has all the rights and responsibilities of a father without either party having to fight it out in court. A married man is presumed to be the father of children in the marriage and I think that a married man who raises a child as his own , knowing it not to be, is also recgnised as the father.
But if he didn't "recognise" the child as his, perhaps he had good reason? It all sounds very odd.
Everso is probably right; she wants his dosh.
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Post by jean on Jun 29, 2011 11:55:33 GMT
Is being illegitimate more of a stigma in France than it is (now) here?
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Post by alanseago on Jun 29, 2011 12:13:31 GMT
No stigma at all in France Jean, it is normal in the Philippines. Was it not a condition in Israel, that a woman must prove her fecundity before being accepted as a bride?
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