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These situations can get quite sticky. Even when the father knows he isn't the biological father.

A friend who is divorced has two sons. One is a smaller carbon copy of him, the other bears absolutely no resemblence at all. The ex wife had admitted to cheating etc and everyone is fairly certain one son isn't biologially his. But he never pursued anything, duly paid child support etc as he did not want to put the child through any further trauma.

Scaeagles I do remember that case, it can't have been too long ago.

And I have another friend who had the opposite situation, had been raising a child as his own whom he knew was not biologically his. They had three other children together. When they got divorced the Mom made sure he got no contact with the child who was not his (she didn't even know he was not her Dad till the social worker let it slip) even though he wanted to take responsibility for her as well as the three that were his.

It can all get very messy.