Bass v. Laporte

hPER CURIAM.

The application is granted in part.

Plaintiff, the mother of the child, filed a paternity action against defendant, the alleged father. The action was eventually compromised and dismissed with prejudice.

Plaintiff subsequently filed this action to annul the judgment of dismissal, asserting among other grounds that compromise of a paternity action is a waiver of future child support and against public policy. Defendant’s exception of prescription was maintained by the trial court.

The court of appeal reversed, holding that if the judgment of dismissal was based on an absolutely null…