Custody Disputes in Space

Though, unless you are on another planet where there is no effective rule of law, this will be somewhat frowned upon.

A Smith & Wesson gold-plated Model 15 would seem to be the sort of weapon that one might find in a frontier whorehouse.

From Firefly's "Heart of Gold". The dead guy had been trying to kidnap the child from the mother, because he had fathered it and he probably needed an heir.