Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “[I]n [the judge's] opinion, it was clear that the appellant/husband was the father of the child. There is no stronger presumption in the law than the one which says that a child born in lawful wedlock is presumed to be legitimate. Only a finding on nonaccess (or impotence) would overcome the presumption that the child was the legitimate issue of the lawful marriage during which it was conceived and born.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cgw v. Bfw