Legal Opinion
Cline v. Drew
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided May 15, 1987PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TOMLIN, Presiding Judge, Western Section.
This appeal calls upon us to decide whether a man who claims to be the father of a child has standing to bring a paternity action in which he seeks to be declared the father, along with visitation rights and name change of a child bom during the marriage of the natural mother to a man previously declared by the trial court to be the father of the child. Following the filing of a paternity petition by plaintiff in the Juvenile Court of Knox County pursuant to T.C.A. § 36-2-103, the case was transferred to the circuit court of that county for trial. The…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Quilloin v. WalcottSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by8 opinions
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