paternity suit

noun

1. 确认生父的诉讼（请求法院确认生父并使其承担抚养义务）
   a court case that is intended to prove who a child's father is, especially so that he can be ordered to give the child financial support

1. 生父确认诉讼
   If a woman starts or takes out a paternity suit, she asks a court of law to help her to prove that a particular man is the father of her child, often in order to claim financial support from him.

1. Quarry's greatest love is selling and the only thing that keeps him awake at night is the thought of a paternity suit.
   科瑞的最大爱好就是卖东西，而唯一会使他在夜里辗转难眠的是想到一个生父确认诉讼程序。
2. Meanwhile Disney star Selena Gomez addressed today the recent paternity suit against her boyfriend Justin Bieber at US chat programme, The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
   比伯的女友、迪士尼明星赛琳娜-戈麦斯在当日的谈话类电视节目“艾伦秀”上提到了男友的“私生子门”事件。
3. He has recently lost a paternity suit.
   他最近输了一场亲子官司。
4. Earlier this week it was believed single mother Yeater had quietly dismissed her paternity suit against the teenager, withdrawing the lawsuit.
   本周初，有消息传出单身母亲伊特已悄悄撤回针对少年明星贾斯汀-比伯的亲子诉讼。
5. He made a surprise announcement after the mother's lawyers filed a paternity suit last week.
   上周孩子母亲的律师提交了一份生父确认诉讼。
6. And one of the three women who claim that he fathered their children filed a ( third) paternity suit against him.
   我的理解是&有三名妇女说她们的孩子是LUGO的，其中有一个还对他发起了确认生父的诉讼。
7. A paternity suit is a typical case of identity relation, and most countries establish legislatively it as an independent cause of action.
   确认生父之诉是典型的身份关系诉讼，多数国家在立法上将其确立为一种独立的诉讼类型。
8. Out of this point, this thesis demonstrates the paternity suit should be an independent cause of action in China.
   本文就是以此作为出发点，论证确认亲子关系之诉应当具有其独立价值，不应将该案由删除。

noun

1. a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)

   Synonym:    bastardy proceeding