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Case Law Development: Ohio Courts Uphold Constitutionality of Statutes Provided Expanded Relief from Paternity Judgments
By Family Law
The Ohio Supreme Court reversed a trial court's dismissal of an action for relief from paternity judgment. The trial court had held that the Ohio statute allowing for such actions…
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Utah Bill Would Give Out-of-State Dads 20 days to Begin Paternity Proceedings
By Family Law
Legislation being considered by the Utah Legislature would set time limits for out-of-state, unmarried fathers to oppose their children's adoption. The proposal, which passed the Utah House Health and Human…
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Case Law Development: Court may Strike Answer and Estop Father From Denying Income Amount as Sanction for Refusing to Comply with Discovery
By Family Law
The Texas Court of Appeals has dealt another blow against hard-ball litigation tactics. In a paternity case, Father stonewalled repeated orders to provide financial information in discovery for nearly a…
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Case Law Development: Mere Offers of Financial Support Insufficient to Entitle Putative Fathers to Notice of Adoption
By Family Law
The Supreme court of North Carolina holds that a putative father need not consent to the adoption of his biological child if he has not provided actual financial support for…
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Egyptian Court Rules a Positive DNA Test Not Sufficient to Prove Popular Actor is Father of Child
By Family Law
An Egyptian family court judge ruled on Thursday that a positive DNA test was not enough to prove that a popular actor was the father of her baby girl. The…
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Court Permits Posthumous DNA Testing to Establish Paternity of Non-Marital Child Seeking Distributive Share of Estate
On January 24, 2006 the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division , Second Department issued a decision in the Matter of James E. Davis , Deceased which speaks to…
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Canadian Woman Sues Chicago Priest for Child Support
By Family Law
A Canadian woman, Sandra Ring, has sued Jason Martin, a Roman Catholic priest, in a Canadian court seeking child support for a child born in 2004. According to the Chicago…
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Maltese Government Sued in European Court of Human Rights in DNA Paternity Dispute
By Family Law
A Maltese businessman is suing the Maltese government in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over a paternity case in which DNA tests show he is not the…
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Case Law Development: Constitutional Challenges to UPA Held Frivolous
By Family Law
The Hawai'i Supreme Court held that a father's challenges to that state's Uniform Parentage Act were "palpably without merit and long ago put to rest by well-settled precedent." Father had…
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Colorado Limits Use of Genetic Tests to Determine Paternity
By Family Law
A new Colorado law that takes effect January 1 limits the use of genetic tests to determine paternity. The new law forbids use of the test after a separation or…