Category
page 1Paternity
pater familias
legal and factual head of ancient Roman household, owner of all goods and slaves, solely male
shared parenting
child custody arrangement
war children
child born to a native parent and a parent belonging to a foreign military force
paternity
legal concept of who is a father of a child
paternity fraud
deliberate misidentification of a man as the biological father of a child
mater semper certa est
Roman-law principle which has the power of praesumptio iuris et de iure
recognition
process whereby a man is recognised as the father of a child