Children's 'disgust' at judge for allowing man who is not their father and last saw them as newborns to be removed from their birth certificates after 15 years of child maintenance

Twins who have been receiving child maintenance from a man who is not their legal father for 15 years have shared their 'disgust' over a court decision to remove him from their birth certificates - as a judge heard they lacked gratitude. Mr Justice Cobb made the decision in London's Family Court, despite the mother's protests that the children would be harmed by a ruling that left them with 'no legal father in the world'. A man who paid child maintenance for twins for 16 years has won a court battle to stop the payments - after a judge found his name was put on their birth certificate by mistake He said the court should determine that 'he is still a legal father'. Mr J has had no contact with the children of any kind since the parties separated more than 15 years ago Last month, he applied to be legally removed as the twins' father in a bid to stop paying child maintenance as he has now been forced to retire through illness, and says he can no longer afford to pay. 'The fact that Mr J was erroneously registered as the children's father on their birth certificates does not itself confer legal parentage on him,' said the judge.