J.B. v. A.F.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court for Vernon County which declared that the plaintiff, J.B., is the natural father of Joshua.1 Joshua was born September 9, 1974. His *698mother died October 20, 1976.. She was unmarried between Joshua’s birth and her death. Appellants are the parents of the deceased mother. The child is in the temporary custody of the Department of Social Services.

The circuit court found that the plaintiff and the mother had an intimate and continuing relationship from the summer of 1968 until the death of the mother and that they engaged in sexual relations…