Roger Carl Gordon v. Shannon Lee Hedrick

HORTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the district court in Canyon County acting in its intermediate appellate capacity. Roger Gordon brought an action against Shannon Hedrick to establish custody and a parenting time schedule for M.H., a minor child. The magistrate court dismissed Gordon’s complaint, changed M.H.’s name, and ordered that Gordon’s name be removed from M.H.’s birth certificate. Gordon moved for reconsideration based upon his earlier execution of a Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity Affidavit (VAP), which, once filed with the vital statistics unit, constitutes…