You are not married to him, court tells woman who got 5 children with man

FCR argued that she had cohabited with CAL for more than 20 years. She asked the court to find that was a marriage. [iStockphoto]

Having a child with a man or a woman is not proof of a marriage, the High Court has ruled.

Justice Asenath Ongeri in her verdict surrounding a matrimonial dispute said that even if a man or a woman proves that he or she got a child with the other, the paternity test cannot be the basis of an argument that was married.