Friend unsure if he has any rights

LegacyUser

Hi,
Posting this on behave of a friend, I feel there is nothing he can do in this situation but I'd thought I'd post on here and see if anyone had any advice.
So my friend in his mid 20s (male) lives in a town down the south of the country. Anyway this woman was staying in the town (her family owned holiday home). They got talking while she was staying and ended up sleeping together. A few weeks later she comes to him and tells him she is pregnant, telling him that she is fine and doesn't want him involved. He was shocked to say the least but told her he want to be involved. She said she'd be in touch. She went back off to Dublin where she lives and he hasn't heard from her since. That was a few months ago. She's blocked/unfriended him on Facebook, by the looks of things changed her number. He can't get in contact with her at all. He has no idea of her Dublin address and all she told him was she works in an office in Dublin (which gives him no information). He has her name but I don't know how that would help him.
He's a bit depressed about the whole situation and the fact that he could have a child out there and not even not when it's born, sex, name etc.
I don't think there is anything he can do if he can't get in contact with her, rather he has to wait until she comes to him.
Any advice anyone has if he could do anything else would be fine.
Thanks

Big Bag of Chips

Someone else could always check Facebook for him. If her work place is mentioned, he could send a registered (solicitor's) letter to that address, asking for contact from her with a view to arranging a DNA test. If her family own a holiday home in his town he could send correspondence to there. He could pass at different times over the summer to see if there is any sign of life there, and call in. There are many ways he could still find this woman if he really wanted to.

Chances are she's not and never was pregnant. But it should be easy enough to find out.

Flippyfloppy

Why would she come to him, tell him she's pregnant but he's to have nothing to do with it? Sounds like a cruel lie to me....

LegacyUser

Op here, thanks I will pass that advice onto him. Out of curiosity, is it necessary to respond to a solicitors letter?

TheBoyConor

Sounds like a crock of shít to me.
If she was pregnant and was sure she wanted nothing to do with him then why even tell him? Wouldn't that be just drawing him on her?

Probably attention whoring wanting him to chase her.

Dial Hard

Unsure2018 wrote:

Op here, thanks I will pass that advice onto him. Out of curiosity, is it necessary to respond to a solicitors letter?

Nope, the only thing anyone has to respond to is a court summons.

Del2005

Unsure2018 wrote: »

Op here, thanks I will pass that advice onto him. Out of curiosity, is it necessary to respond to a solicitors letter?

A solicitors letter is just an very expensive letter, it has the same weight as a letter you write yourself.

heretothere

Try have a snoop of her social media, hopefully you'll be able to find a recent picture she's tagged in which should help. Also keep an eye on the holiday house over summer. Very odd though to call him to tell him then say she doesn't want anything to do with him! I wonder if she's fobbing the baby off as someone else's? But if she was you'd have thought she'd have kept her mouth shut!
Very unfair on your friend, morally he has every right to know if he has a child out there, legally not so much

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