paternity suit in English
noun
1
a court case held to establish formally the identity of a child's father, typically in order to require the man to support the child financially.
About a year after we married, my husband told me he was being sued in a paternity suit having to do with a one-night stand before we met.
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1. Bastardy proceeding is commonly called paternity suit