The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a man who fathers a child during an affair with a married woman has no legal rights to fatherhood.

The vote was divided at 4-3, but the ruling upheld the presumption that a child born to a married woman living with her husband is a child of the marriage.

Justice Bill Cunningham wrote in the ruling that married couples have a right to be left alone from the claims of "interloper adulterers."

The court sided with a Louisville couple, Julia and Jonathan Ricketts.

They had sought to block James Rhoades Jr. from trying to establish paternity of a child he fathered during an affair with the woman.