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Can my boyfriend be registered as the father of our baby who was born a month after I divorced ? My ex-husband, my boyfriend and I are all Jewish.

This is problematic. You would need to apply for a declaratory judgment declaring your boyfriend to be the father, but the court is unlikely to order genetic testing to establish paternity if you are all Jewish because of possible damage to the child arising from the risk of him/her being a 'bastard' under Jewish law. If your boyfriend were not Jewish, this risk would not apply.

Your boyfriend could apply to adopt the child, and thus by-pass the legal problem. Depending on the circumstances, your 'ex' may be pleased to co-operate, and relieve himself of the financial burden of child support if he knows the child really is not his, if for example, you were separated from him and had no intercourse around the relevant time.