Claude T. v. Claire T.

CLEMENS, Judge.

The trial court denied defendant-wife’s motion to modify a divorce decree to provide maintenance for a child born to her seven months after divorce. The trial court held defendant had failed to prove plaintiff was the father. Defendant-wife has appealed.

The evidence: Claude and Claire were married in June 1969 and separated in January 1972; they were divorced in August 1972. The child whose paternity is in issue was born March 6, 1973. Thus, the child was conceived after the parties had separated, but before they were divorced. Defendant denied—and plaintiff asserted-—that…