A man has successfully disowned his twin daughters and proved himself ‘sexually free’ after his ex-wife impregnated him during a triplets.
The New Zealand man won the court battle earlier this year, but documents from the strange case were only revealed by the family court this week.
The court heard that the former couple separated around two years ago, but were only officially separated three months ago.
After their divorce, the man tried to remove his name from the twins’ birth certificate.
Their mother claimed he was trying to avoid any child support obligations while the man said he wanted to ‘defend his honour’.
They previously adopted children together, but the man had a vasectomy about 12 years before the girls, who are now teenagers, were born.
At the time of the twins’ conception, the ex-couple regularly had a threesome with another man – believed to be the twins’ biological father.
A New Zealand man has been granted a non-paternity order after he argued the real father of his twins was a second man with whom he and his ex-wife had a threesome
Their mother told the court their relationship with the second man was to help her get pregnant – which her ex-husband denied.
“Whether it was for pleasure or to conceive a child remains a point of contention, but the fact is that the parties were in this arrangement at the time of conception,” Judge Traicee McKenzie said in her ruling. NZ Herald reports.
“When the parties separated, relations soured and this application was made.”
Despite not believing he was the father, the twins took the ex-husband’s surname and his name was listed on the birth certificate – which he tried to remove.
Their mother insisted her ex-husband was involved in the twins’ lives, taking them on holidays, buying them presents with the girls calling him ‘Dad’.
In his 2020 will, the man included the twins as discretionary beneficiaries and called them ‘my children’.
However, the mother admitted he was not a ‘hands-on’ father.
The man denied her claims, saying he only went on holiday with the girls once and cut contact with them once the pair separated.
Judge McKenzie found that the twins had also made no attempt to seek a relationship with him.
“I have to take into account his rigid, consistent and unwavering views from the date of separation that he rejected any form of relationship with the girls or that the girls were his own biological children,” she said.
‘He made it clear from the outset that he wanted no relationship with them.
‘…There was no evidence in any detail of the nature of that relationship. No evidence of any expression of love or affection between them that would be expected between a father and his daughter.
“They were children who lived in his house.”
The man was granted a non-paternity order and his name was removed from the twins’ birth certificates.
The man claimed he had no relationship with the twin girls, while his ex-wife said he was trying to get out of paying child support.
After the verdict, the man told the Herald that he asked for the order to ‘defend his honour’.
“I’m not a family man,” he said.
He explained that the couple had been living an ‘unconventional’ home life since 2018 with him living in a separate part of the house for his wife and the children.
He added that he didn’t really participate in the threesome and mostly ‘just watched’, but was under the assumption that his ex-wife and the other man were ‘safe’ and using birth control.
“I don’t expect you or anyone else to understand, but I was happy with my life,” he said.
‘I have no sexual prudence. I am sexually free.’