D. R.-T. v. O. M.

A California man begets a California child by a California woman, is declared by a California court to be the child’s father and required by California law to support the child until he reaches twenty-one. The California man, then a young resident in a hospital, moves to Florida, where he practices medicine successfully. My brethren think that this absolves him of the duty to support the child after he becomes eighteen, a conclusion I could share if he had, as a Floridian, sired a Florida child by a Florida mother. A preference for the law of the forum which takes the single contact with…