580 So. 2d 1085 - State v. Prosper’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 2003
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Jones · 555 So. 2d 39 - Farrell v. Farrell · 516 So. 2d 1157 - Collier v. Collier
Most-quoted passages
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“... the use of the conclusive presumption that the husband of the mother is the father of the child, La.C.C. art. 184, to prove the essential element of “parenthood” in a prosecution under La.R.S. 14:74 “clearly violates the federal and state constitutional guarantees of due process.” The court concluded that “the term ‘parent’ in La.R.S. 14:74(2) encompasses only the persons who begot or brought forth the child and cannot constitutionally be expanded by interpretation to include a person who is merely presumed in the civil law to be the biological parent.” Supra at 1087”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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