State, Department of Revenue ex rel. Brinson v. Brinson

The Department of Revenue (the “DOR”), appeals the trial court’s order granting Clinnie Brinson’s (“the father”), petition to vacate final judgment. We reverse.

In 1992, the court entered a final judgment of .dissolution of marriage for Linda *39Brinson, (the “mother”) and the father. The court awarded the mother and father shared parental responsibility of their one minor child, and ordered the father to pay child support. The mother represented to the father that he was the biological father of the child, and the father had no reason to believe otherwise.

In 1995, the mother told the father that…