2002 Pa. Super. 364 - DiPaolo v. Cugini’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “This situation is a perfect example of why I believe that our courts should abandon the strict application of the estoppel doctrine and grant trial courts the discretion to order paternity blood tests and then consider such evidence along with other factors relevant to the best interests of the child involved. Such an approach would not only prevent biological fathers from using the estoppel doctrine as a vehicle for insulating themselves from parental responsibilities but would also ... work to eliminate situations where a man is deceived into believing he is the father and is then made to bear legal responsibility, by reason of estop-pel, for a child that is not his.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 2007 Pa. Super. 402 - Vargo v. Schwartz