State Ex Rel. Fuller v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “"(a) A man is presumed to be the natural father of a child if any of the following apply: "(1) He and the child's natural mother are or have been married to each other and the child is born during the marriage, or within 300 days after the marriage is terminated by death, annulment, declaration of invalidity, or divorce, or after a decree of separation is entered by a court. "(2) Before the child's birth he and the child's natural mother have attempted to marry each other by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance with law, although the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid, and "a. If the attempted marriage may be declared invalid only by a court, the child is born during the attempted marriage, or within 300 days after the termination of the attempted marriage by death, annulment, declaration of invalidity, or divorce; or "b. If the attempted marriage is invalid without a court order, the child is born within 300 days after the termination of cohabitation. "(3) After the child's birth, he and the child's natural mother have married, or attempted to marry, each other by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance with the law although the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid, and "a. He has acknowledged his paternity of the child in writing, the writing being filed with the appropriate court or the Office of Vital Statistics; or "b. With his consent, he is named as the child's father on the child's birth certificate; or "c. He is otherwise ob”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bnp Ex Rel. Jf v. Dmp

2. “"[a] divorce judgment designating a child as the child `of the parties' is a paternity determination precluding the parties from disputing the child's paternity in the future. D.D. v. C.L.D., 600 So.2d 265 (Ala.Civ.App.1991). Further, `a paternity adjudication in a divorce action, which is necessary for purposes of support and inheritance, is res judicata to the parties in the divorce action, but not binding on the child unless the child is a party.' D.D., supra . "”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bnp Ex Rel. Jf v. Dmp

3. “any other reason justifying [that] relief.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 696 So. 2d 1071 - Watson v. Watson