Pendleton v. Centre College of Kentucky

MILLER, Judge.

These appeals spring from judgments of the Boyle (89-CA-0515-MR and 89-CA-*6171214-MR) and the Casey (89-CA-2167-MR and 90-CA-0262-MR) Circuit Courts. All appeals are conflicts arising in the wake of Pendleton v. Pendleton, Ky., 531 S.W.2d 507 (1975), vacated and remanded, 431 U.S. 911, 97 S.Ct. 2164, 53 L.Ed.2d 220 (1977) (hereinafter Pendleton I).

The issues address legal niceties emanating from the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal in Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762, 97 S.Ct. 1459, 52 L.Ed.2d 31 (1977), of the ancient doctrine that a bastard child cannot inherit from its father —…