Legal Opinion
Godin v. Godin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided December 24, 1998No. 97-147Published
1Opinion of the Court
725 A.2d 904 (1998)
Mark A. GODIN
v.
Rita GODIN.
No. 97-147.
Supreme Court of Vermont.
December 24, 1998.
Timothy J. Ryan of Brown, Cahill, Gawne & Miller, St. Albans, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Rita Godin, pro se, Enosburg, Defendant-Appellee.
Present: AMESTOY, C.J., and DOOLEY, MORSE, JOHNSON and SKOGLUND, JJ.
MORSE, J.
The question presented is whether, six years after a final divorce decree and adjudication of paternity, a father may disavow a child born during the marriage and presumed for fourteen years to have been his. We hold that he may not.
The family court denied plaintiff Mark Godin's motion…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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