Russian women are filing lawsuits en masse to establish the paternity of children born to participants in the "SMO"

Russian women are filing lawsuits en masse to establish the paternity of children born to participants in the "SMO." This is needed to receive coffin payments

Russian courts are seeing more and more lawsuits for the posthumous establishment of paternity in relation to children born to participants in the war in Ukraine, "Verstka" has found.

This is also confirmed by lawyers working on family disputes. And in thematic communities where relatives of servicemen communicate, the topic of establishing paternity has become one of the most discussed this year.

In court databases, "Verstka" found 61 cases mentioning the establishment of paternity in relation to children after the death on the "SMO" of their alleged biological father. But in reality there are more such lawsuits.

Paternity is established in cases where the parents were not officially married, and the father did not put himself on the birth certificate during his lifetime. The "legal" children of "SMO" participants are entitled to various benefits and a share of the multi-million-ruble "coffin" payments, and their mothers can apply for a survivor's pension.

That is why Russian women go to court, even many years after the child's birth. Sometimes the claims are filed by the children themselves, proving that their father acknowledged them while alive, despite never formalizing it officially.

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