Commonwealth Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Andreas

I agree that appellant must support the child. However, my reason for this conclusion is entirely different from the majority’s.

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On October 22, 1971, appellant was a party to an Agreement for Order of Support; the order, entered on October 29, 1971, directed appellant to make weekly payments “for and toward the support of his wife and child.” Implicit in that order was an adjudication that appellant is the father of the child. In effect, therefore, appellant now seeks to relitigate the issue of paternity.

This court, confronted with a similar situation in Commonwealth ex rel. Nedzwecky v.…