Roods v. Roods

HOWE, Justice:

Appellant John W. Roods, Jr., former husband of respondent Victoria Lynn Roods, seeks reversal of a lower court judgment which declared him to be the father of respondent’s minor child and ordered him to pay past and future child support.

Appellant contends that the court erred: (1) in permitting the mother to testify regarding the child’s paternity; (2) in allowing the mother to testify with respect to gestation; and (3) by finding the applicable standard of proof where paternity is asserted to be “by a preponderance of the evidence” rather than “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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