Michael soon sees past this, and realizes Brian does not care for Walt, only pursuing paternal rights in the past to please Susan.
The paternal rights and abortion issue is an extension of both the abortion debate and the fathers' rights movement.
Personally, I though Malcolm had long since lost any paternal rights, but I wasn't sure enough about the situation to test it.
Unmarried fathers have relatively little statutory protection in relation to paternal rights.
The actor helps to clarify the perplexity of a father with limited paternal rights and apparently without a life of his own.
The case is the second in recent weeks involving a challenge to an abortion on the ground of paternal rights.
Not only were his paternal rights being denied, but why was his spouse, usually so understanding, suddenly rejecting him?
The father said that Richard's mother had falsely told him the baby had died, so he was unable to assert his paternal rights.
Nick demanded Will sign away his paternal rights to the baby.