arizonadecember
New Member
this is not really my predicament, i'm just trying to do some research and interested in gaining whatever knowledge i can get my hands on....
this is kind of a long one, so please bare w/me.....my boss was in a serious, long-term, committed, monogamous relationship. when she first got w/this guy she was already a single mom. she wasn't interested on having anymore children at the moment, which is why she was on birth control. well she got w/this guy and he told her that he can't have kids b/c he's had a vasectomy. after being together for quite sometime, she decides that it's safe to quit the birth control b/c afterall, he'd had a vasectomy.
well the inevitable happens and they split up. however, throughout the course of their relationship she discovers that he's fathered 5 other children w/5 other women, not paying child support for any of them, and apparently he told all these other women that he's had this supposed vasectomy.
now, is there some kind of civil lawsuit (or if she got w/these other women) or perhaps class action lawsuit that she (or they) could file? i don't know if that maybe falls under emotional distress, negligence, etc. i'm just wondering if there's some kind of legal action she can take. i remember from business law that there's some kind of law or rule about business ethics or something stating that the 1st party cannot sell a product to the 2nd party under false pretenses. the 1st party feeds the 2nd party false information about said product or service and the 2nd party can come back and sue the 1st party b/c the 2nd party relied on the information about the product or service that was provided by the 1st party. of course i can't quite remember the wording but i figured that if you can do something like that in the business world, then why not this?
sorry it was so lengthy. i'm in florida, btw. i've tried searching family law and court sites but it mainly talks about child support and visitation rights and blah, blah, blah. thanks for your time.
this is kind of a long one, so please bare w/me.....my boss was in a serious, long-term, committed, monogamous relationship. when she first got w/this guy she was already a single mom. she wasn't interested on having anymore children at the moment, which is why she was on birth control. well she got w/this guy and he told her that he can't have kids b/c he's had a vasectomy. after being together for quite sometime, she decides that it's safe to quit the birth control b/c afterall, he'd had a vasectomy.
well the inevitable happens and they split up. however, throughout the course of their relationship she discovers that he's fathered 5 other children w/5 other women, not paying child support for any of them, and apparently he told all these other women that he's had this supposed vasectomy.
now, is there some kind of civil lawsuit (or if she got w/these other women) or perhaps class action lawsuit that she (or they) could file? i don't know if that maybe falls under emotional distress, negligence, etc. i'm just wondering if there's some kind of legal action she can take. i remember from business law that there's some kind of law or rule about business ethics or something stating that the 1st party cannot sell a product to the 2nd party under false pretenses. the 1st party feeds the 2nd party false information about said product or service and the 2nd party can come back and sue the 1st party b/c the 2nd party relied on the information about the product or service that was provided by the 1st party. of course i can't quite remember the wording but i figured that if you can do something like that in the business world, then why not this?
sorry it was so lengthy. i'm in florida, btw. i've tried searching family law and court sites but it mainly talks about child support and visitation rights and blah, blah, blah. thanks for your time.
