Man sues wife for having ugly baby...and wins!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfbk3VHsqIA

http://news.yahoo.com/man-sued-wife-birthing-ugly-baby-110500995.html

Apparently in China, bad genes are grounds for divorce — and six-figure fines

"Failed relationships can get ugly," says Ji Lin at the Irish Examiner, but the weird, sad tale of Jian Feng and his wife "really gives meaning to the old cliché." The story starts out conventionally enough: Feng, a resident of northern China, met and married a beautiful woman, and they had a baby girl. That's when things reportedly got, um, ugly. Feng was "so sure of his own good looks, so crushed by the wrinkly ugly mess that was handed to him in a swaddle, that he decided to sue his wife because the awful looking baby was totally her fault," says Madeline Holler at Babble. And then things went from ugly to crazy: He won.

Here's what you should know:
How was the ugly baby the mom's fault?
Since the baby didn't look like either parent, Feng accused his wife of infidelity — "because jumping to conclusions about your wife's faithfulness is the obvious thing to do when you have an ugly baby," says Sam Smith at Planet Ivy. After a DNA test proved that the baby is, in fact Feng's, the wife came clean on her little secret: Before they had met, she had undergone about $100,000 worth of cosmetic surgery in South Korea. And unverified before-and-after photos circulating on Western and Chinese blogs do show a marked improvement in looks after the women went under the knife.

On what grounds did he sue?
False pretenses — Feng claimed that his wife misled him by not telling him about her plastic surgery before they wed. "I married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began having marital issues," he reportedly said. "Our daughter was incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me." A judge agreed, and ordered the wife to fork over $120,000. Ugh, says Babble's Holler. The wife "should probably file her own lawsuit for even more damages from having married Feng under the false pretense that he wasn't a shitty husband and father."

Who's the biggest loser here?
Well, "it's usually the victim of court cases that you're supposed to feel sorry for," says Planet Ivy's Smith, but who wants to give emotional succor to a "man who is angry at his beautiful wife for being ugly at some point in her life." The wife obviously has to pay a huge amount of money, and got publicly humiliated in the process, but at least she's free of an obviously odious husband. So "if you're going to feel sorry for anyone, feel sorry for their child, who will forever be known as the baby that broke her parent's marriage — with her face."

[mistercwood 287]

Had to check the date on the article, thought I saw this one a while ago. How long did he wait though? I've found all new babies to look pretty much exactly the same - red, wrinkled, and seriously angry...

You are playing chicken with a planet - you can't dodge and planets don't blink. Act accordingly.

[Andy9o8 0]

I thought they all looked alike.
Why do the rules keep changing?

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I saw this for the first time yesterday, but that doesnt mean the article hadn't been recirculated.

[JerryBaumchen 1,049]

Hi Andy,

So, how about a legal opinion?

When my daughter was 16 or so, she had a rhinoplasty ( I paid for it, so that might include me in some liability ); she had inherited her maternal grandmother's Roman nose.

She did not tell her husband about this; and their 8-yr old looks as shown in the attached photo.

Can he sue; and is there any chance of him taking my house?



JerryBaumchen

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Hi Andy,

So, how about a legal opinion?

When my daughter was 16 or so, she had a rhinoplasty ( I paid for it, so that might include me in some liability ); she had inherited her maternal grandmother's Roman nose.

She did not tell her husband about this; and their 8-yr old looks as shown in the attached photo.

Can he sue; and is there any chance of him taking my house?



JerryBaumchen

That's a good looking kid, Jerry.

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

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is there any chance of him taking my house?

Not without a warrant.

[JerryBaumchen 1,049]

Hi Southern,

Thank You. And I agree, but I am prejudiced.



JerryBaumchen