Padova v. State

Deen, Chief Judge.

The defendant, admitted father of an illegitimate son born August 6,1969, entered into a formal contract with the child’s mother, an adult wage earner represented by counsel, to pay the mother the sum of $750 in settlement of all claims, the mother agreeing that the release act as a complete estoppel in any action growing out of the birth of the child. The money was paid. In 1977 demand was made on the defendant to pay child support, and at about the same time an accusation was taken out against him, resulting in a trial, a finding of guilty of abandonment, and this appeal.

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