Urquhart v. Urquhart
New York Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtWalteb, J.
Plaintiff seeks an adjudication that he is the legitimate son of defendants. In addition to alleging the fact of parentage he sets forth facts which he claims show that a divorce which his mother procured from his father in Arkansas three years before his birth is invalid.
The male defendant (alleged father) denies that he is plaintiff’s father but now makes this motion for judgment on the pleadings upon the theory that plaintiff may not attack the validity of the divorce; that it thus must be treated as valid; that if valid, plaintiff could not be his legitimate son; that the action cannot be…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Matter of LindgrenNew York Court of Appeals · 1944
- Haan v. HaanNew York Supreme Court · 1928
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