RG24P0700 - [2025] EWHC 1876 (Fam)

The applicant spends a lot of time correcting the respondent’s chronology of fertility efforts. He explains his excitement to be registered as D’s father on the birth certificate and sets out they both attended with their passports and requested two copies of the birth certificate. He explains he is D’s father regardless of D’s DNA. He says D has a right to have a father who plays a fulfilling and meaningful role. In his second witness statement he says the parties made a “clear and mutual decision” that any child born would be his son or daughter regardless of the genetic connection. After they separated, he explains how he respected the respondent’s wish that contact only take place in her home and that he tried hard to “co-parent” in a positive manner. Eventually he found the respondent’s position on contact unreasonable.

Responding to allegations made by the respondent in her application for a FPR Part 25 application for him to be assessed by a psychologist, he denies allegations that he is a sexual predator or mentally unstable. He sets out the strain on him on the respondent’s false allegations of sexual abuse. He sets out his detailed plan for developing contact between D and him.