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During the legeal battle with G. Ben Thompson over that house in the Bahamas, she claimed he GAVE her the house and that he was the father of her baby. (not born yet.) I'm guess she was using the claim at that momment as the reason why the court should believe her on the 'why' he would give her the house.
Birkhead filed for paternity (a month after the baby was born), a week later Smith files the Birth Certificate listing Stern as the father.
Smith and Stern have tried to block the paternity lawsuite. The judge has issued an order for testing, but Smiths lawyers haven't complied. Stating that the tester doesn't have the right to do so in the Bahamas. Again, stalling.
So, I don't think Stern is the biological father. However, that doesn't mean that he wasn't or wasn't planning on being THE father of the Baby. As we know, not all 'bioloticals' do the actual raising. If NO biological comes forth and forces their 'rights' as parent, then biological really sin't an issue. At least when she signed the BC, Anna was saying that Stren was to be a father of some sorts to that child. And was granting him such legeal rights. Signing it, he accepted those legeal rights.
Courts grant those same type of rights when they allow a child to be adopited. Either a parent and step parent adoption, or new parents adoptions. Birth certificates are made out showing the 'legeal' parents. So the birth certificate isn't always 'proof' of blood/biological parenting.
In that case, then YES Stern was the father. Because he and Anna said so. And he had clear rights, so long as no biolotical father makes a claim. If it's proven that some other guy is the biological father of the Baby, then the courts can demand the BC to be changed to refect that information. Or If it's decided that Stren gets to raise the child, the information could be allowed to 'stand as is.'
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