A court has upheld an application filed by a woman and her partner over the paternity of their child.

Mr Justice Noel Cuschieri, presiding over the Family Court, heard how the woman had separated from her husband in September 2004. In January, 2005, the husband had been jailed for a year and a half.

The woman then started a relationship with another man and, last January, she gave birth to a child who had been registered as the child of the woman's estranged husband.

The woman and her partner then filed an application in court requesting that the child's birth certificate be altered to indicate the real father.

The court heard how it was not possible that the child could be of the woman's estranged husband, because he was in jail at the time of conception.

The court, therefore, upheld the application and ordered a correction of the child's birth certificate.