[Avodah] Definition of a Mamzer

[Ken Bloom]

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 02:18, Shoshana L. Boublil wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:12:24 +0200
> > From: "Yaakov Ellis" <yellis at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Avodah] Definition of a Mamzer
>
> Does the name printed on the birth certificate actually have
>
> > significance in this case in determining whether or not the child
> > is a mamzer?
>
> It's not the registration per se -- it's that she is going to court
> and demanding DNA testing to prove it.

If she really wants to prove her case (and screw up her son's life in 
the process), she should go ahead and get DNA testing without the 
approval of the court, and present the DNA testing to the court. At 
that point, clearly he's a mamzer, and there's no reason for the court 
not to change the birth certificate.

So as long as she doesn't realize this, I'm glad the courts are watching 
out for him.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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