Legal Opinion
Division of Child Support Enforcement Ex Rel. Blake v. Myrks
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided April 30, 1992PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Justice.
Appellant, Division of Child Support Enforcement (“DCSE”), appeals from a decision of the Family Court granting appel-lee’s request for blood testing to determine paternity. Myrks v. Division of Child Support Enforcement, Del.Fam., File No. CN87-1915, 1991 WL 223740, Keil, J. (Sept. 23, 1991). Here, we confront issues of res judicata and the applicability of the Delaware Parentage Act (“DPA”), 13 Del.C., Ch. 8, to questions of paternity. In noting the ambiguities of the DPA in this regard, that the DPA is significantly different from the Uniform Parentage Act, and that…
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