(1971)

STEPHEN O. HART, Assistant Corporation Counsel, LaCrosse County

Your letter of August 18, 1971, requested my opinion on a 1971 amendment to sec. 893.15, Stats. This amendment is contained in ch. 21, Laws of 1971. It relates to the statutory limitation on time for the commencement of actions to establish paternity.

The pertinent language of the amendment is italicized:

"Within 5 years of the date of birth of a child or if theparents live together as man and wife after the birth of thechild, 5 years after they separate: . . ."

Since this amendment was published on April 24, 1971, it became…