Court documents suggest John Edwards is father of Rielle Hunter's baby

John Edwards has never admitted to fathering a love child with a one-time staffer, but new legal documents suggest the failed presidential hopeful is the baby's daddy - and may soon have to pay up big-time.

The new documents detail an ongoing money battle between Edwards and Rielle Hunter, 45, whom Edwards has admitted bedding even as his wife, Elizabeth, discovered she had cancer.

Edwards has never copped to fathering little Frances Quinn Hunter, now almost two years old.

But the documents, first reported by the National Enquirer and posted online yesterday by radaronline.com, include an eight-page "Family Part Case Information Statement" listing "Rielle Hunter" as the plaintiff and "John Edwards" as the defendant.

The document identifies "custody," "parenting time" and "child support" as the issues in dispute, and names Rielle and "John Edwards" of Chapel Hill, N.C., as the parties.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/12/17/2009-12-17_court_documents_suggest_john_edwards_.html#ixzz0ZyLPLtQX

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