R.D.B. v. State Department of Human Resources ex rel. R.A.P.B.

This case presents a single question involving an important question of family law: Does Alabama law require a man who has been determined not to be the biological father of a child to be legally responsible for that child? The majority says that “the facts and the procedural posture of this case are exhaustively treated in Judge Thigpen’s dissent to the Court of Civil Appeals’ majority *876opinion” and that “[t]his Court concludes that Judge Thigpen’s analysis set out in his dissent is correct, and we adopt that analysis as our own.” 680 So.2d at 874. In his dissenting opinion, Judge Thigpen…