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I am a Christian guy and had an affair with a married Jewish woman who was hardly having sex with her husband. She got pregnant but raised the child with her husband. Can I bring legal action to be declared the father?

You are entitled to file for paternity at the family court, and request genetic testing to establish whether you or her husband are the biological father. However, the court has discretion to refuse genetic testing, if it considers it likely to cause damage to the child, and the Attorney General's representative, whose reaction is asked in paternity cases, could object. The longer you wait, the greater the risk of genetic testing being refused on the ground that the child could lose a 'psychological' father if paternity testing were allowed, and proved that her husband was not a biological parent.