German plan to force mums to name lovers in paternity cases. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said: "We need to offer more legal protection for 'false' fathers to seek financial compensation".

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The measure would apply when men who had supported a child, believing that they were the father, sought financial redress in court.

Justice Minister Heiko Maas said: "We need to offer more legal protection for 'false' fathers to seek financial compensation".

The draft change follows a ruling by Germany's highest court in March 2015 that there was no legal basis to force mothers of so-called "Cuckoo children", in German slang, to name the biological father.

The draft changes, which will require parliamentary approval, also limit the "False" father's financial claim to two years' worth of maintenance costs.

A 2005 review of studies into so-called paternal discrepancy published in the British Medical Journal found that the rate was around 4% - meaning one in 25 children is biologically fathered by someone other than the man who believes he is the father.

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