Estate of Hawk v. Lain

LARSON, Justice.

The defendant, Lorena Lain, appeals from a declaratory judgment that she is not the child of the decedent, Harold E. Hawk. She argues that although she was born while her mother was married to another man, blood tests and other evidence successfully rebutted the presumption that she was the husband’s child. She contends Hawk was her natural father, and she is entitled to inherit from him because (1) Hawk and her mother were married after her birth, legitimatizing her under Iowa Code section 595.18; and (2) she is entitled to inherit under Iowa Code section 633.222 even if she…