Commonwealth Ex Rel. Spangler v. Spangler

I concur in the result reached by the majority. The majority’s decision affirming the lower court’s finding that Ronald Lee S. is the father of Richard Lee S. and that, therefore, he must pay child support for the child is based on the fact that the child was born during the marriage of appellant and appellee. Pursuant to the time-honored legal presumption that children born in wedlock are legitimate, the majority holds that appellant is the child’s father. Manfredi’s Estate, 399 Pa. 285, 159 A.2d 697 (1960).

*193The parties were legally married at the time conception occurred, although they were…